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...Kong grosser since The Storm Riders in 1998. Help!!! (it was a big summer for punctuation), a hospital drama, mixed cynicism and sentiment in crowd-pleasing proportions. For New Year they offered the gorgeous, frantic, virtually all-girl Wu Yen, with Cheng as a warrior, Cecilia Cheung as an elfin enchantress and Anita Mui as both a King and his grandfather; it was the season's second-highest grossing film. Then came Love on a Diet, a romance about two grossly obese people determined to lose weight. It encased Lau and Cheng in bulbous makeup and padded suits?and still...
...Whatever you call it, the movie is a touching, irrepressibly funny fable of an elfin café waitress who surreptitiously arranges fortuitous developments in the lives of people she knows. After circumstances deny her influence over her own destiny early in life, Amélie decides to outwit fate by manipulating events to fulfill the hopes and desires of others. Populating that plot is an array of stock characters from classic French cinema, updated with comically magnified conditions, obsessions and idiosyncrasies. Amélie's jilted concierge tipples port in the presence of a pet dog preserved by taxidermy...
...venues there is a great selection of appropriately, or maybe inappropriately, chosen themes. Waiting for the start of competitions, audiences hear Robbie Williams inviting "Let Me Entertain You" or Jennifer Lopez's "Waiting for Tonight." As the elfin, prepubescent girl gymnasts march out, Shania Twain raunchily sings "Man, I feel like a woman." At softball and volleyball the loudspeakers welcome teams from the other side of the world with "We've come a long, long way together/Through the hard times and the good", from Fatboy Slim's "Praise...
...elfin face may not be as visible anymore. Elian and his family will spend the next three weeks in a seaside Havana house, and officials plan to keep international media out of Elian's hometown of Cardenas, ostensibly to let Elian get caught up in school so he can enter second grade in September. But critics in the U.S. warn that the quarantine is meant to deprogram Elian. (If so, he'll be used to it: the private school he attended in Miami, owned by a right-wing Cuban-exile leader, was just as dogmatic.) Last week he used...
...cross-country skis, shushes the children's squeals, and muses, "Listen to the stillness. It's so quiet, but nature is moving all around us." The kids reflect on her words for two seconds before pushing one another over in yelping heaps of skis and poles. Kearns, an elfin woman with twinkly eyes, smiles at the antics and pushes ahead into the thickening snow blurring the Adirondack wilderness ahead. She's leading her students on an overnight field trip to discover the beauty and history of this mountain range in upstate New York. Kearns is convinced that getting out into...