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...Judging by the results from this holiday movie season, the moguls shouldn't have been so worried: big stars, once the industry's most dependable insurance policy, carried little clout at the box office. Major holiday releases with expensive stars like Jim Carrey (The Majestic) and Meg Ryan (Kate & Leopold) bombed, and even Tom Cruise couldn't turn Vanilla Sky into a blockbuster. Meanwhile, star-free projects like Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings set box-office records. "With many of 2001's big hits, the draw was not a star but a concept," says Paul Dergarabedian, president...
...hold all the pieces together. They all take place in Ice Haven, a burgh whose only distinguishing characteristic is a pustule-shaped rock outcrop known among the locals as "our friend." A central mystery also begins to take shape through many of the vignettes. With explicit overtones of the Leopold and Loeb murder case, the disappearance of a dopey-looking kid becomes the running theme of the book. Then, as if he didn't set enough of a challenge for himself, Clowes will often carry some event or object over from one vignette to the next...
...with Kate & Leopold, in which the dashing but impecunious third Duke of Albany (Jackman) is zapped from 1876 New York (he is in town reluctantly seeking a rich bride) to contemporary Manhattan, where he falls for Kate McKay, a hard-charging market researcher. His transportation is provided by her dreamy amateur scientist ex-boyfriend (Schreiber). Some of his education in contemporary rudeness is supplied by her brother (Meyer), a hilariously earnest, perpetually out-of-work Method actor...
...them; Kate needs them) that director (and co-writer) Mangold's film works best. There are excellent jokes about everything from television to pooper scooping, and given that this holiday film season has come up more than a little short on love and laughter, one can easily forgive Kate & Leopold the slightly excessive lengths and complications to which it goes in search of those rare commodities. --R.S. THE MAJESTIC...
...DIED. LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR, 95, first president of an independent Senegal; in Normandy, France. A poet of negritude, a celebration of blackness, Senghor persuaded French President Charles de Gaulle to grant Senegal independence in 1960. He led the republic until 1980, when he became the first African President to retire voluntarily...