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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER He had barely finished one campaign--the Terminator 3 junket--when he began another, his bid to become California's Governor. Cue the sneering. And indeed the recall election began as a 250-candidate, porn-star-and--Gary Coleman circus. But voters warmed to Schwarzenegger's toss-the-bastards theme, and he helped inspire a 20% increase in turnout. In the early hours of Oct. 8, he stood alone as the decisive victor...
...only toys: cuddly cloth cowboys, adorable insects, furry monsters. But when the pixilated storytellers at Pixar fashion them, these playthings come to life. Take Marlin, the single-dad clown fish, voiced by Albert Brooks, in the new Pixar astonishment Finding Nemo. Brooks says that when a reporter on a junket described this fish father as overprotective, "I stood up and said, 'Overprotective? If your wife and almost all your children were eaten by a shark, you wouldn't be overprotective?' Then I realized--I'm yelling about a fish...
...half of Cheech and Chong), is gone. Neither the studio nor Chong would comment on why, but Warner Bros. replaced him with Harold Perrineau, the guy in the wheelchair from HBO's Oz. Chong told ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY that after he was replaced he tried to crash a Matrix press junket and he took food from the Matrix...
...recovers a sense of normalcy, however fragile, while he is unable to break his obsession with covering Third World suffering. He is a witness and death is his subject, and as time passes he seems to long for his favorite m?tier. A concerned editor sends him on the reporting junket of a lifetime, traveling to mythical lairs?Babylon, Tibet, Shangri-la and more?to study man's dreams instead of man's misery. Man has forever sought power, immortality and peace, the journalist discovers, and they will forever elude his grasp...
...W.G.A. is demanding that writers' names have equal prominence with directors' in movie posters, that actors not change their words on the set, higher pay, invitations to premieres and press junkets, and better seats at the Golden Globes. Actually, I don't agree with the press-junket part because I have to go on them sometimes and they have really bad food and local newspaper reporters asking Mel Gibson "What was it like kissing Helen Hunt?" and "When did you realize you were so talented...