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Only God knows what kind of heroic acts took place at 25,000 feet as passengers and crews contended with four teams of highly trained enemy terrorists. But it is clear that the hunt for the culprits began way up in the sky, by the doomed passengers and crews themselves, minutes before the attacks took place. The victims on board at least two of the four planes whispered the number and even some of the seat assignments of the terrorists along with their final goodbyes in their brief and haunting Tuesday morning cell phone calls. A flight attendant on board...
...laughs. In an episode of Seinfeld (a production of Castle Rock Entertainment, an AOL Time Warner company), the character George famously ripped open an obnoxious bubble boy's capsule. Disney's position is that Bubble Boy makes fun of nobody and that Jimmy Livingston is "a resourceful, courageous and heroic character." Realizing their predicament, however, company officials have privately told victims' groups that Disney may be prepared to aid them in their public-awareness campaigns...
...ballets staged in deserted malls, the film played like The Seven Samurai (minus two) in Alphaville. It was another To essay on a man's dedication to the work ethic, no matter what line of work he's in. For cine-philes everywhere, The Mission offered proof that the Heroic Bloodshed genre had not died out with the emigration to the U.S. of John Woo, Tsui Hark and Ringo...
...year's top-grossing film, raking in $4.7 million. (Says To today: "I've still no idea why the movie was so successful.") Justice, My Foot!, his period comedy with Stephen Chow, earned a gigantic $6.3 million. To's two collaborations with martial-arts master Ching Siu-tung?The Heroic Trio and Executioners, with Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung as magical crime fighters?were hits in Asian theaters and in video stores around the world...
First KERRI STRUG saved the U.S. Olympic gymnastics team by sacrificing her ankle in a heroic one-legged vault in 1996. Now the gold medalist is sacrificing her summer to rescue the reputation of the country's interns. Strug has been filing, faxing and copying--and nothing else!--for Republican Senator John McCain at his Capitol Hill office. "Thousands of interns come in and go out each summer," says Strug, who graduated from Stanford in June with a communications degree and will return this fall for grad work. "Most people are very professional. Girls just have to be careful. There...