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...fewer than eight big-budget action films opening between May Day and Labor Day boast smashing, auto-dynamic set pieces. The multiplex traffic jam started last month with the freeway fracas in The Matrix Reloaded and the Hollywood-and-Vine destruction derby in The Italian Job. This week 2F2F is joined by Hollywood Homicide, with a careering, nonstop trip through Beverly Hills and other L.A. tourist spots. Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle will show how car stunts can outdo kung fu. In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, mankind's savior will try to keep his Toyota Tundra...
...trusty tank. But that driver feels more like a doughboy stuck in a bunker. The traffic won't budge; his car can't fly over the ones in front of him or scoot under a 24-wheeler. In movies, says Donald De Line, producer of The Italian Job, "we get to watch these characters get up on sidewalks and beat traffic and go down staircases. When it works, a movie car chase is a satisfying experience." It's what the movies do: make fantasy real...
...chromed-up engine. But he insists on the visual veracity of real stuntmen putting their pride and lives on the line. "You want to keep a sense of danger," he says. "If you don't have that, there's no point in doing it." Director F. Gary Gray, whose Italian Job is an update of a 1969 caper, says he strove for "a retro, fresh approach. I wanted to be able to communicate the danger, and that meant I had to do it the old-fashioned way." He's proud that "virtually every stunt we did could have been done...
DIED. LUCIANO BERIO, 77, experimental Italian composer; in Rome. Utilizing everything from electronic sounds to the spoken word, he created an innovative body of work that often divided critics. His 1968 Sinfonia, which he conducted for the New York Philharmonic, featured passages from Beckett and Joyce, musical quotations from Mahler and Stravinsky, student graffiti and the Swingle Singers to create what TIME praised as a "new kind of dramaturgy...
...million PPR shares owned by Artémis were pledged to banks at the end of last year. A significant cause of these woes dates back to September 2001, when Pinault won a ferocious two-year fight with another French tycoon, Bernard Arnault, for control of the Italian fashion firm Gucci. Victory seemed sweet, but it carried a $7 billion price tag. The timing could not have been worse. The day after the deal was signed, al-Qaeda slammed planes into Manhattan's World Trade Center, crushing the already fragile economy. With hindsight, it's clear that Pinault overpaid...