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When it comes to Hollywood, the claim that “life imitates art” has become the popular cliché of the past several years. When President Bill Clinton launched air strikes against Iraq during the height of the Lewinsky scandal in 1998, the press had a field day comparing the situation to the Robert DeNiro satire Wag the Dog, in which the fictional president commissions the production of a fake war in order to ward off scandal. A year later, when two high school students murdered more than a dozen of their peers at Columbine High School...
...After Hollywood's Summer of Duds, news that Philadelphia filmmaker M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN (The Sixth Sense; Unbreakable) is ready to start work on his next supernatural thriller is good news. But first--what did he think of that summer ghost movie that ripped off his Sixth Sense twister ending? "I was bothered by it," he admits. "But I guess I'm flattered. So many times I'll come out of a movie and think, 'I wish I had done that!'" His new movie, Signs, stars Mel Gibson as an ex-priest wrestling with his beliefs ("I like to cast slightly...
...PAULINE KAEL, 82, passionate, pugnacious, widely influential film critic; in Great Barrington, Mass. Kael began writing about movies in the San Francisco Bay Area before serving as the New Yorker's film critic from 1968 until her retirement in 1991 (with a one-year break for a fling at Hollywood producing). In her colloquial, compulsively readable prose, she punctured the pretensions of arty classics from Hiroshima, Mon Amour to 2001: A Space Odyssey; championed such American filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma and Robert Altman; hailed Last Tango in Paris as a cultural event to rival Stravinsky's Rite...
...When journalists learned of the first human heart transplant in 1967, the story turned out to be worthy of a Hollywood script. CHRIS BARNARD was young, confident, good-looking -- a surgeon-genius from the backwoods of South Africa. His innocence and disarming honesty only added to one of the most extraordinary medical breakthroughs of the 20th century. "What happens now?" we asked him after the operation. "I don't exactly know, it's never been done before," he replied. But real life isn't always like the movies. When I spoke with Barnard a month ago, he was a lonely...
...original purpose may have been to quiz the great king, but it was the torrid love affair between the wise and powerful Israelite ruler and the mysterious monarch from the south that everyone remembers. Their legendary romance, celebrated in both Bible and Koran, begat epic poetry, Hollywood extravaganzas, musical works by George Frideric Handel and Charles Gounod and, according to Ethiopian tradition, an African dynasty that endured until Haile Selassie was deposed...