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Crazy/Beautiful's most powerful appeal to teens, however, is likely to be the real erotic charge between Dunst--a promising 19-year-old actress--and newcomer co-star Jay Hernandez. Their moving, brown-and-white romance (sex scenes have been trimmed but not omitted) could end up being a shrewd come-on for the target audience. Last spring teenagers turned out in force for Save the Last Dance, another PG-13 interracial love story from MTV Films and one of the few flicks to score with that demographic at the box office this year. "The young audience is much more...
...Jay Branegan: Yes, the problem is that, like with so many things in this conflict, in order to get the two parties to agree you have to leave so many things vague and undefined that each side walks away with its own understanding of what exactly has been agreed. And that's a recipe for things to come very quickly unstuck. Already it's being debated whether the "confidence building" measures begin during or after the "cooling off" period...
...Jay Branegan (Washington): The bar for success is being set a lot lower; he's not going there to try and restart the Camp David talks. If the cease-fire is still in place after three weeks, that's a success. But his higher goal of locking both sides into a timetable for implementing the Mitchell proposals and reopening talks may not be achievable on this trip. Clearly, there are differences of interpretation, such as whether ten days without violence precedes a "cooling off" period, or whether that in itself constitutes a "cooling off" period. Sharon has gotten some credit...
...Jay Branegan: Bush praised Sharon for his patience, and that helps buy the Israeli leader some political cover. Because he's under pressure at home to not show any more patience. Certainly in public, the two sides maintained a solid front. What it means for peace in the region, however, is hard to say right now. We're going to have to see what happens when Powell comes back from his trip next week. In fact it's probably more important what happens between Powell and Sharon than between Bush and Sharon, because Powell is getting into the nuts...
...With reporting by James Carney with Bush, Jay Branegan and Massimo Calabresi/Washington and James L. Graff/Goteborg