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Khafji was already a ghost town when a sudden Iraqi thrust made it the site of the first large ground battle of the war. Six miles south of the Saudi border with Kuwait, the town had been abandoned two weeks earlier by residents who fled out of the range of Iraqi artillery fire. On Tuesday, Jan. 29, nine brigades of Iraq's 5th Mechanized Division -- regarded by the U.S. as one of Saddam's better units -- swept into Saudi Arabia. They entered along a stretch of border that began north of Khafji and ended at the town of Umm Hujul...
...million budget became a ho-hum affair, movie-goers provided a surprise punch line to the financial joke the industry had been playing on itself. For the first time in moguls' memory, none of the top three hits were an action adventure with a big male star. Ghost and Pretty Woman were romantic fantasies angled to women; Home Alone, the year's box-office winner, starred a nine- year-old boy. These modest movies were old-fashioned sleepers, whose success suggested a future for women's movies...
...film and give it class. That was a more genteel time, one that prized wit, heart and, on screen at least, a sexual equality of emotion and intelligence. Movies were about grownups; the toy-boy heroes stayed in comic books. Maybe audiences were more mature too. These days, Ghost and Pretty Woman are the big-hit exception, not the norm; moviegoers tend to measure heroism in terms of pectorals. Somewhere ! between Rambo and bimbo, between roles for children (the only age group in which the movies employ more females than males) and the over-40 wasteland, lies the precarious terrain...
Demi Moore had the best role of 1990, if you multiply intensity of character by box-office impact. As the grieving widow in Ghost, Moore grounded the preposterous plot -- she gets a last chance to make love with her lost love -- and gave it resonance. She has shone in romantic comedy (about last night . . .) and Brat Pack frippery (St. Elmo's Fire). She always seems wired; nerves on edge, talent on display...
SADDAM'S WEIRD WAR: Seeking to lure the U.S.-led coalition into a bloody battle on the ground, Iraq surprises -- and baffles -- the allies by invading a ghost town in Saudi Arabia...