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...pleased as much as ever the niche audience that cares about such entertainments, but there was no must-have mainstream game, no equivalent of Tomb Raider or Crash Bandicoot. After a buildup worthy of a Star Wars prequel, most PlayStation 2 offerings turned out to be disappointingly middling. Some hype is impossible to live...
...weird. When American Pie came out, I was in Vancouver shooting Final Destination. It had so much hype and I got back to Los Angeles right at the peak of Pie-dom and it was insane. My roommate and I don't really go out much, but when we'd go to clubs the girls would surround us. They'd never talk to me before but now they were all over me. So I didn't really take it too seriously. But my roommate did-he's like "Well I have this untitled tennis project coming...
...next big-screen performance. Substituting football pants for equally tight leather chaps, this time Van Der Beek serves under one legendary cowboy, Leander McNelly (Dylan McDermott) and must woo Joey Potter and simultaneously battle an army of renegade outlaws, namely John King Fisher (Alfred Molina) and Pacey Witter. The hype is good for this gun toting, rough riding drama set in Texas, 1875, the one setback being it threatens to diminish the number of syllables Dawson can intelligently use in a sentence to just under one. Seriously, in their quest for freedom, the Texas Rangers...
...these guys could make a movie as well as they talk it, Quantum might stoke hope along with the hype--be a mini-Matrix. But it doesn't work. David Aaron Cohen's script charts a familiar journey into oneself (Dorff is an implosive Luke Skywalker), and even with a final kiss that detonates a supernova of special effects, the movie remains stubbornly stillborn, emotionally unwired...
Featuring the highest hype-to-payoff ratio in sports, the 126th Run for the Roses will pack all its punch into two glorious minutes at Churchill Downs, cloaked by the affecting melodrama of a daytime soap, with a cast of characters to match. Here's a thumbnail sketch of this year's edition...