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...AMELIE FROM MONTMARTRE A shy girl with a runaway imagination (Audrey Tautou) forces magic on all those in her Paris neighborhood. Jean-Pierre Jeunet's scurrying narrative and cinematic gamesmanship (a style that could be called faux Truffaut) may at times weary viewers used to Hollywood's burlier, spell-it-all-out mode. But give me, any day, a film that offers a groaning banquet table of invention and enchantment--and a showcase for world-class beguiler Tautou...
...pinwheeling, voluptuous movie should get its own chapter. Art director Catherine Martin reimagined the famous Montmartre nightclub as something like Pee-wee's Playhouse in Gotham City, stuffed to bursting with bright ideas and dark corners. The inspirations came from everywhere--fashion photography, the technicolor "Paris" of old Hollywood, the Bhagavad Gita. Plus there's a boudoir-in-an-elephant...
...America has - for better or worse - put a face on the evil of the September 11 attacks, and that face belongs to Osama bin Laden. Personalizing the battle has been the work not only of a media culture that can't report a war without resorting to standard Hollywood diabolical bad-guy tropes, but also of the administration itself: Despite all caveats to the contrary offered every step of the way, much of what Washington has done since September 11 has made getting bin Laden a major objective of the exercise - from leaflets dropped all over Afghanistan offering...
...like producing a Warner Bros. film. "We do all this market testing," Levin says, but "the big mistake is we don't know how to end a movie." In choosing a well-liked, up-by-the-bootstraps guy like Parsons, AOL Time Warner has fashioned a classic Hollywood ending to the Levin era. But Parsons has to deliver a strong performance on earnings growth before the audience will stand up and cheer...
...ELIZABETH HURLEY the new Diana--lovely, spurned and not averse to tipping off the tabloids? Hurley, currently four months along in that family way, says Hollywood producer and multimillionaire Stephen Bing is the father. But Bing, "a spermicidal maniac," according to those hyper British tabs, is not so sure. "Ms. Hurley and I were not in an exclusive relationship when she became pregnant," he said in a statement issued to newspapers. "It was her choice to be a single mother." Bing--dubbed Bing Laden by Hurley pals--added gallantly, "If indeed I am the father, I will be an extremely...