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Cultural trade in movies used to be a one-way street that ran West to East. Hollywood or Paris would disgorge some spiffy hit, and before you could say call my lawyer, an unofficial Asian remake would be in the theaters. So Hong Kong ripped off Luc Besson's Nikita...
Cage used to be just an actor--a fabulously unpredictable one, equal parts promise and menace. For his first decade in movies, he danced on the weird side: as a blond goofball in Valley Girl, the blind Vietnam vet of Birdy, Moonstruck's one-handed Romeo, the drifter haphazardly hired...
--Is the ultimate fate of the cosmos too gloomy to contemplate, even at a few trillion years' remove? A lot of you got downright doleful at the faraway prospect. "Thank you for making me feel very, very small," griped a reader from Los Angeles. Even more despondent was a Californian...
Tapie Gets a Rematch Another notable comeback was staged last week in Marseilles where Bernard Tapie returned to run its doleful soccer club, Olympique Marseille. Tapie's first stint there from 1986-1994 ended in a five-month prison term on multiple corruption convictions, but not before he'd trans...
No one knew when it might end. By Saturday, more than 50 incidents of foot-and-mouth in the U.K. had turned up-from Dover on the southeastern tip to Lockerbie in Scotland-and fresh cases were expected at the rate of six to 10 a day. The confirmation of...