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It’s the stuff of fairy tales and Disney movies. Meet a boy, go on a date, fall in love, live happily ever after. And while most dream of their prince proposing at midnight on a windswept beach or at the climax of a candlelit dinner, the way Barkley elected to pop the question seemed to suit the happy couple just fine. After accepting the abundance of congratulations and good wishes that were showered upon them, Barkley and Ausman excused themselves. With their departure, the sparkle of romance dissipated and the meeting resumed its agenda. As they basked...
...Damage and Jennifer Lopez's Tick-Tock. "This will forever change the content of certain types of movies," says producer Arnold Kopelson (Outbreak, Se7en), who canceled production of a film about bioterrorism. "It's going to be a very long time" before audiences will watch a building blow up. Disney postponed two comedies, Tim Allen's Big Trouble (involving a bomb on a plane) and Anthony Hopkins' and Chris Rock's Bad Company (with a nuclear-bomb threat). "[To release a terror film] just wasn't being sensitive to where the world is right now," says Disney studio chairman Richard...
...ready, before they had the 1,000 or so hours any airline would demand of a future jet pilot, they invested in expensive time in a training device. The 727 full-motion simulator is a multimillion-dollar contraption that twists and bucks and turns on hydraulic pistons like a Disney ride. But the technology is good enough that airline pilots use simulators regularly to train for emergencies that are too dangerous to practice in a real plane: a double-engine failure or a fire on takeoff. For $1,500, Atta and Al-Shehhi bought six hours of simulator time from...
...type," he understates), with Joaquin Phoenix as his brother. They own a farm that becomes the site of enormous, mysterious crop circles. A surprise ending to this one? He's coy, but promises it will be unique: "I'm an Indian living in Philadelphia--I can't help it!" Disney execs, who paid eight figures for the script, are counting on a hit--and hope the surprises stay on the screen...
...couldn't move--that must have been the whole idea--so we had no choice but to watch. Every city cataloged its targets; residents looked at their skylines, wondering if they would be different in the morning. The Sears Tower in Chicago was evacuated, as were colleges and museums. Disney World shut down, and Major League Baseball canceled its games, and nuclear power plants went to top security status; the Hoover Dam and the Mall of America shut down, and Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and Mount Rushmore. It was as though someone had taken a huge brush and painted...