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Three attractions -- one flop, two smashes -- are new to the world. The Visionarium film, shown on nine curved screens that wreathe the audience, is the least of the lot: a wan drama, with few aerial thrills, that puts Jules Verne (Michel Piccoli) into the time machine of his friend H.G. Wells (Jeremy Irons), with help from a friendly baggage handler (Gerard Depardieu). In the dungeon of Sleeping Beauty's Castle, a powder-puff piece of surreal estate inspired by Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, reposes a fabulous Audio- Animatronics dragon that snorts steam, flashes its stoplight eyes...
...broader vision (although in presenting the award, Audrey Hepburn tagged India with that ancient stereotype "mysterious"). It was a year for fiction, but for outrageous and shocking fiction. It wasn't a year for the sweet and docile fiction of Fried Green Tomatoes. Of course, the Academy may flip-flop next year and nominate a remake of the Sound of Music, but this year will go down as a fairly radical one in the history of Oscar...
...loved the book! Now see the movie! That's how Hollywood used to sell films based on best sellers. But if the film is a notorious flop, like Cleopatra or Heaven's Gate or last year's The Bonfire of the Vanities, the pitch is, You hated the movie, now read the book about how this bad movie got made -- and how it got made...
FRANKIE & JOHNNY. Now that Garry Marshall's comedy about displaced lovers in New York City has proved to be a fall flop, we like it a little more. See it (in an uncrowded theater) for Michelle Pfeiffer's sad beauty, Al Pacino's drooling-puppy ardor, Nathan Lane's good-natured bitchiness...
After months of clamoring for more high-tech aircraft, Saudi Arabia has reversed the throttle and quietly backed off its request for 72 more F-15 jet fighters. KING FAHD's surprising flip-flop may prove to be a pragmatic move. The Saudis relish their role as Washington's pre-eminent Arab partners in the Middle East peace process, so they would rather not risk embarrassing GEORGE BUSH. The $4 billion transaction would have undercut the President's vow to scale back arms sales to the Middle East and would surely launch a bruising battle between the White House...