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...plot of The Jackal may seem familiar (it's a remake of The Day of the Jackal), but the film will bring viewers at least one thing they've never seen before: BRUCE WILLIS as a bad guy. In fact, Willis will be seen in lots of new guises, including a fat-suit, blond and ponytail wigs, fake noses and geeky glasses. And not one of his trademark Die Hard "Yippee-ki-yays" in earshot. According to the director, even the actor seemed thrown by his villainous new persona. "It slightly confused him a couple of times," says Michael Caton...
...would be easy to make fun of First Wives but a mistake to miss it. Once you accept the fact that Frank Capra is dead and that Hollywood is remaking The Day of the Jackal in case the original was insufficiently bloody, First Wives is one of the best movies of a very long year. It's funny: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney and Driving Miss Daisy," declares Goldie Hawn, who with her collagen-inflated lips is trying to stay in the first phase. It's touching: Diane Keaton is convincing...
...demanded and eventually got from the English publisher HarperCollins, U.K., an advance of nearly £500,000 (almost $800,000) for his latest novel. In the process, he tossed over his longtime British agent and friend, Pat Kavanagh, for a more aggressive U.S. representative, Andrew Wylie, called "the Jackal" by publishers and rivals because of his opportunistic business style...
Burned-Out Case: Carlos the Jackal is brought to justice...
After a 20-year manhunt that fanned across Europe and the Middle East, one of the world's most wanted terrorists was arrested in Sudan and flown to France. Ilich Ramirez Sanchez -- a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal -- masterminded the kidnapping of 11 OPEC ministers from a Vienna conference hall in 1975. He is also linked to a 1982 Paris bombing that killed one person and wounded 63, and to the fatal shooting of two French counterintelligence agents...