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...long bloodletting has been hard to miss. Yet only now, as the issue of corporate excess has gotten hotter than Vin Diesel, is the Disney board asking hard questions, and is Eisner acknowledging the need for a strong board. He has said he'll reduce its size, now at 16, dumping some cronies to give outside directors more pull...
Although their parents may not have heard of him, members of the hip-hop generation have embraced Diesel so enthusiastically that his per-picture fee is rapidly rising into the $20 million territory. Teens are so excited about seeing him in XXX, a spy movie opening Aug. 9, you have to wonder if they think the title refers to something besides extreme sports. Like The Rock, whose Scorpion King grossed more than $90 million earlier this year, Diesel is also part of a nascent constellation of stars whose melting-pot backgrounds and features seem to be resonating deeply with young...
With his exotic looks--olive skin and full lips--he's widely assumed to be of Italian and African heritage, but Diesel resolutely refrains from identifying his ethnicity. One Race is the name of his production company, and he refers to himself simply as "multicultural." "I support the idea of being multicultural primarily for all the invisible kids, the ones who don't fit into one ethnic category and then find themselves lost in some limbo," says Diesel, 35, as he dips into a bowl of hummus on the patio of Los Angeles' gothic Chateau Marmont hotel...
...high-camp, high-concept, highly stylized adrenaline rush of a movie--Diesel stars as Xander Cage, the ripped and tattooed un-James Bond. Like Diesel himself, who admits that when he was a child his "appetite for attention was insatiable," Xander is a self-starting, self-promoting charmer who is presumably unfit for any occupation other than star. Obsessed with dangerous exploits that require extreme athleticism, Xander sells black-market films of himself performing such stunts as stealing the Corvette of a right-wing Senator, driving it off a cliff and parachuting to safety. He's recruited...
...preview screenings, men cheer the stunts (see Vin outpace an avalanche on a snowboard!) while young women whoop and holler every time Diesel reveals his tattooed chest--which is frequently. The film explicitly sets up Diesel as the new postmodern Bond by killing off a nameless spy wearing a tux in the first scene. A sequel is already in the works...