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...Pearl Harbor insist it is just like Titanic, a colossal hit that raked in $225 million in Japan, whose film fans tend to love action-packed adventures with romantic leads. The trailer shown in Japan is vague about who the enemy actually is, cutting out close-ups of grim-faced Japanese soldiers heading off to bomb Hawaii that are shown in trailers elsewhere. A 14-page spread on the movie in the fan magazine Pia never even mentions Japan's involvement in the attack. As a result, some critics view the company's marketing strategy as a bait and switch...
...Some reports out of Washington today paint a pretty grim picture for the Democrats? version of the bill. Do you have a prediction of how the vote will...
...project our dreams onto movie stars, and so we want her to live happily ever after. A decade ago, as Pretty Woman's naughty-but-nice hooker, she became a sex symbol for the safe-sex era. But we resisted her in less glamorous roles like Mary Reilly's grim-faced maid...
...study shows that one in five U.S. teenagers are probably failing history - or at least should be. The grim findings from the ten-question survey by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: Some 22 percent of the 1,000 students who responded in didn't know the U.S. broke away from Great Britain. Nearly 20 percent didn't know that there were 13 original colonies or that the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. One-quarter didn't know who fought in the Civil War, and almost one third didn't know that Francis Scott Key wrote...
...batter themselves and each other relentlessly against a dead end of life. Both Yorkin and Lear adaptations follow the same recipe: take one BBC show, add the milk of human kindness and stir for 30 minutes. "One of our major concerns was not to make Sanford look too grim," says Yorkin. "The Steptoe set in England was dark and gloomy; we took pains to make ours poor but not depressing...