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Coleman Hough's spare, perceptive script is set in what must be one of the last doll-manufacturing plants in the U.S. Hefty, fortyish Martha (Debbie Doebereiner) and her winsome young friend Kyle (Dustin Ashley) pass their lunch breaks eating fast food and making slow talk. Rose (Misty Wilkins), a young single mom with a bit of a past and some bad habits, joins the workforce and upsets Martha's and Kyle's placid comradeship. Pretty soon there's a death...
...authenticity to this strip-mall, strip-mined area. Ashley is a student, Wilkins a beauty-salon stylist, and Doebereiner the manager of the Parkersburg, W.Va., Kentucky Fried Chicken. All are good, but Doebereiner's a real find. With eyes as blue as those her Martha presses into plastic doll faces, she brings a fresh look to a decent person who's addicted to the emotional status...
...China-doll mode of Ziyi Zhang, or of so many American actresses who want to play the eternal teen, Gong Li, 40, is Woman in all her allure, majesty and threat. There is architectural drama in the severe planes of her face, and her slimly voluptuous figure could grace the prow of a China Sea clipper. "We joked that if we just had a dollar for every time somebody said she was beautiful when they walked past her," says Geisha producer Lucy Fisher, "we could've financed the whole movie. She's magnificent in every...
...company Arcelor were working harder than ever. In the space of just seven days starting Dec. 22, the firm bought a 50% stake in two Costa Rican firms and snapped up 20.5% of a Turkish steel company. By far its biggest move came on Dec. 23, when ceo Guy Dollé announced a $4.2 billion hostile takeover bid for Canada's leading steel producer Dofasco, topping an agreed offer by Germany's ThyssenKrupp. Arcelor is trying to reduce its heavy dependence on the European market that now accounts for 75% of its business. "Expansion into North America...
...late '50s and early '60s, the Shadows dressed in shiny suits, toted red Fender Stratocaster guitars and danced a uniquely British three-step shimmy into the charts with songs such as Apache and Kon Tiki. As the backing band for Cliff Richard, they had other hits including Living Doll and Travellin' Light...