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...Biography" that aired Tuesday in the midst of "Biography Goes Ape Week": His childhood hero was Vincent Price. Most of the cast of "Beetlejuice" initially wanted nothing to do with the film. (Good instinct, in my opinion.) "Edward Scissorhands" was basically a relating of Burton growing up in the Hollywood uber-burb of Burbank...
...shots of the apes loping into battle to, well, to Estella Warren and her highly evolved hairdo. That was to be expected from the director of "Scissorhands," "Batman," the even better-looking "Batman Returns," and "Sleepy Hollow." And I?m happy for Burton, whose cachet as one of Hollywood?s bankable directors has been in the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately category since "Mars Attacks," (which I actually liked, but no one else did) - the movie opened to the tune of $69 million, the largest non-holiday opening in history, and should have no trouble turning a profit...
...DOING HUGE BUSINESS IN JAPAN" With a few exceptions (Shrek), Hollywood's summer films have been letdowns at the box office. Unless you ask the studios...
...ferocious stateliness to such martial epics as Once Upon a Time in China and Fong Sai Yuk. At 35 he played in his first big U.S. film, Lethal Weapon 4, and showed Mel Gibson how real men fight: with stern grace and fatal feet. His debut as a Hollywood star, in Romeo Must Die, took in $100 million world- wide. He has just signed a deal with Miramax Films worth $10 million a picture. In China, movie stars are called film workers. In America, Jet Li is what they call a player...
...softer business than Romeo Must Die. This has less to do with the quality of the two films (Dragon is much preferable in atmosphere, directorial skill and the climactic face-off) than with the featured player. Nothing against Fonda, who still has the most wickedly flirtatious mouth of any Hollywood actress. But Chinese action stars have succeeded with the American public only when their co-stars are African-American. Jackie Chan had his one big U.S. hit, Rush Hour, with the black comic Chris Tucker; the love interest in Romeo Must Die was the hip-hop thrust Aaliyah...