Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through Tokyo, the gigantic cost of big-event pictures has shaken the old studio dynamic in which the blockbusters covered the tabs of smaller flops. While a film like Independence Day generates a multimillion-dollar profit, the big pictures often don't clear enough anymore to make other problems disappear. That means studios will have to scrutinize smaller films more carefully. There are no easy answers, says Chernin, and no radical solutions available. The bottom line, says Universal's Meyer: "You have to choose well and be lucky...
...Queen of England. In the course of 50 years of knockabout journalism, I have seen too many upheavals of one sort and another to feel any certainty about anything or anyone... Popularity, however seemingly strong and widespread, can evaporate in an afternoon, and institutions that have lasted for centuries disappear overnight. So I can but conclude by simply saying, 'God bless the Prince and Princess of Wales...
...last July that an AIDS-related illness was eating away at his brain and would probably kill him by October. In a last-ditch effort to save his life, his doctors gave him three anti-HIV drugs all at once. Within weeks, the lesions inside his head started to disappear. And tests could no longer find even a trace of the virus...
...time as "Eraser" Kruger, top agent for the witness protection program. Under his mentor in the agency (James Caan), Kruger efficiently "erases" the identity of errant stool-pigeons, until one day he finds out that, wouldn't you know it, someone has been killing the people he's helped disappear. Soon he's protecting one such potential witness/victim, Lee (Vanessa Williams), who knows a little too much about the machinations of a high-ranking U.S. government employee looking to sell top-secret Very Powerful Guns to terrorists...
...challenge of making someone invisible--is squandered in favor of a standard corrupt-government/secret-weapon story. In fact, the movie is often most interesting when we get a glimpse of the underground world Arnold has created, as he goes around collecting favors from the people he has helped disappear...