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...perhaps how Weinstein felt five years ago when Rodriguez came to him with the idea for Spy Kids. After all, this was the former University of Texas film student who burst onto the indie scene in 1993 with the bloody Mexican action flick El Mariachi. Desperado, the 1995 Hollywood version of El Mariachi, had a sky-high body count but was in turn seriously outgored by Rodriguez's next movie, the 1996 vampire pic From Dusk Till Dawn. His upcoming film, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, due in September, is about a bloody coup. Weinstein's response...
...Hollywood, Stallone the star may be history. But in the rest of the world, he still helps make it. --By Richard Corliss. Reported by Desa Philadelphia/Los Angeles
...less famous in the U.S. than fellow bandleaders Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw and Glenn Miller--all of whom flocked to him for arrangements. The author of such hits as Only Trust Your Heart and the novelty tune Cow Cow Boogie, Carter turned his focus to Hollywood in the early 1940s, arranging and composing for films like Stormy Weather and An American in Paris, and later TV series including M Squad and Ironside...
...mellow voice to New York City; she made a splash in Porter's New Yorkers by singing Love for Sale, a song about prostitution. In the 1980s she won acclaim for her one-woman show A Time to Start Living and the musical revue Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood...
...especially if a Democrat wins the Louisiana Governor's race this fall, thus ensuring that a Democrat would fill out his term. Said a spokesman for Tauzin, who insists he is running in '04: "No job has been offered, and we all know Jack's going to be running Hollywood from heaven." At 81, however, Valenti wants to retire as soon as a successor has been picked. Studio heads will meet around Labor Day and could make a final selection then. --By Viveca Novak