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...also losing their appetite for diet books. "The past couple of years have been relatively light on diet best sellers," says Stuart Applebaum of Bantam Books. Another reflection of the changing standards: makers of liquid and powder diets are avoiding bone-thin models and choosing heftier people to hawk their products. TV host Cristina Ferrare, Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda and ex-New York City mayor Ed Koch hardly qualify as sylphs...
...coordinator Dennis Muren, "the beginning of a new period of filmmaking." The San Rafael, Calif., firm, which director George Lucas founded in 1975 to design the special effects for his Star Wars, has crafted dazzling sequences for dozens of movies, including current releases like Backdraft, The Rocketeer and Hudson Hawk. But its work for Terminator 2 sets new standards...
...HUDSON HAWK...
...Hollywood, swollen egos can lead to skyrocketing costs. Movie-industry insiders say megastar Bruce Willis was unhappy with the look of his receding hairline and bald spot in the prints of Hudson Hawk, the $45 million action film scheduled to open next week. So Tri-Star Pictures hired a special-effects firm to retouch every offending frame...
Last year Goldie Hawn's Bird on a Wire got the Memorial Day jump on the competition and galloped to a $70 million gross; Total Recall, the first brawnbuster released last June, beat out its beefy competition. So an early start is helpful. This Memorial Day weekend, Hudson Hawk, with Bruce Willis as a reformed thief forced to commit one last heist, will try to shoulder out Backdraft, director Ron Howard's fireman-buddy epic starring Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro. Maybe those two films will duke it out all summer. Or maybe they will cream each other...