Word: kurt
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Soldier, Warner Brothers' new film starring Kurt Russell, is a futuristic science fiction action movie. What would someone going to the movie expect to see, given this premise? Special effects and outer space settings are pretty likely. So are violence and a romantic twist somewhere in the story. And, as usual, audiences at science fiction movies are ready to set aside notions of realism and plausibility in order to enjoy the film as an entertaining spectacle rather than an intellectual experience. Soldier makes use of most of these assumptions, but in the end turns out to be a disappointing film...
...There is no national driving issue," said Kurt Victor, a congressional correspondent for the National Journal magazine...
...young gymnast barely had an allowance, say former gymnast Kurt Thomas and his wife Beckie, with whom Moceanu lived and trained for four months last year. At one point, the couple say, they gave her $500 to open a checking account. At their suggestion last November, she met with a Dallas lawyer to discuss using the last $173,000 check from her gymnastics exhibition tour to set up a separate trust. When her father found out about the plan, he drove to Dallas and took the check and Dominique back to Houston. Dominique told the Houston Chronicle that beyond just...
...turn as a homeless angel on everybody's favorite teen-angst drama My So-Called Life, Juliana was a pervasive presence on the airwaves. Add in hot rumors about her relationship with cuter-than-thou Lemonhead Evan Dando and also her supposed virginity, and Juliana was prime Kurt Loder fodder...
...scene midway through Apt Pupil, Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen) tosses a stray cat into an oven. The cat, of course, escapes, to wild cheers from the audience. This scene, while not profound or even endurable, epitomizes Apt Pupil. As in almost any drama, the villain is far more interesting than the "hero," who is likely asleep while our villain is drinking Old Crow, listening to opera and amusing himself by throwing cats into ovens or something. Of course, as in any Hollywood film, the one inviolable taboo is that no matter how many humans are gruesomly murdered, an adorable...