Word: flicks
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...most important thing Fifi has learned is how to draw in men, how to reel them in real slow with a flick of her hair and a flash of a smile. Fifi wasn't much good at school, but she knew she could charm the teachers, especially the fuddy-duddy middle-aged ones, who fumbled when she smoothed her hair or adjusted the pleats on her skirt. "Shanghai women know a lot more than Shanghai men," she says. "We know the game, and we have to teach them the rules...
...Hoskins and Dennis Hopper? Probably not, or at least not fondly. Hard-core game fans, more familiar with controlling action than with merely observing it, are liable to sit in their local cineplex with itchy trigger thumbs. So Paramount is pulling out all the stops to make its flick an eye-catching thrill ride for gamers, filming in locations ranging from the lavish set at Pinewood to the legendary temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia, bringing in "Con Air"'s Simon West to direct and, most important, hiring Angelina Jolie to star...
...come a long way, baby. Flick on the TV, and see women - young women, almost always - kicking and thinking and winking at both the old notion of femininity and the aging precepts of feminism. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (in her fifth season on the WB) saves her classmates from Evil, when she's not cracking a book or a joke. The Cartoon Network's Powerpuff Girls, "the most elite kindergarten crime-fighting force ever assembled," protect Townsville with their magical powers. Max, the bionic babe on Fox's "Dark Angel," occasionally lets a mere man help her save the world...
...sympathize I did; I was invariably moved by the flick, no matter how many times I'd seen it, and I always choked up at the same place - Kong's plunge from the Empire State. What gets me so much? Why am I affected...
...course, but I really had no idea of what I had been missing. Keep in mind that I'd been a stop-frame fan for years, and here was this article with these fantastic photos that implied that I had somehow missed the greatest stop-frame flick of them all. It was the movie that had inspired Harryhausen...