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...willing to throw their respectability out the window in the pursuit of victory. Given the task of selling lemonade on the streets of New York, the female team wore extra tight shirts and included complimentary kisses on the cheek with every glass. When challenged to boost sales at Planet Hollywood, the women again fetched the street-walker wear out of their wardrobes and begged men on the street to buy them shots inside the restaurant. When presenting a new advertising approach for an airline, they photographed the jets as phallic symbols and used ad slogans alluding to the size...
Fulfilling the boundless promise exhibited in her debut effort, The Virgin Suicides, director Sofia Coppola crafts a sublime love letter to both Tokyo and transitory friendship with her Oscar-winning work. Hollywood star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) has been shipped off to Japan to hawk Centauri whiskey to the natives. There, he encounters Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the beautiful wife of a photographer, and the pair are soon discovering the culture and a profundity in their friendship that is lacking in their respective marriages. Johansson perfects the prolonged sulk, while Murray delivers a career performance, donning the hats of weary voyager...
...that image hides a tougher, Hollywood-mogul side--especially in recent years, since Miyamoto, 51, has become more manager than creator. Eiji Aonuma, director of Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, tells of Miyamoto's habit of coming in at the end of a game's gestation to "upend the tea table"--a phrase that harks back to what Japanese fathers used to do when they didn't like what was for dinner. The boy who never grew up is not afraid to make a mess if he doesn't get what he wants...
...experimenting with its own home movies. Her favorite: Maxis Revolutions, starring a family of Sims that all resemble Keanu Reeves' character Neo. Sims 2 lets you edit your Sims' looks and personality in detail, so you've got all you need to create almost any movie star you want. Hollywood can only dream of doing that...
...want my life back to normal, because it's hard. It's so hard. But at the same time I'm like, Wow, I get to go to New York. I get to go to Hollywood. I get to hang out with people like Britney and Leonardo." JESSICA LYNCH, former POW, on her life a year after her rescue...