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Vince Vaughn, who co-stars alongside Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, is so money. Last year, Vaughn, a struggling actor, was a lead in the low-budget Swingers, a Gen-X comedy about latter-day lounge lizards bantering incessantly in superhip lingo--kinda like this, baby. In one scene, Vaughn's character picks up a woman in a bar while the theme from Jaws plays in the background; Steven Spielberg saw it, and the rest is show-biz history. Says Vaughn: "I do this one small movie...
...cited the change in popular lingo, from fireman to fire fighter, and from policeman to officer as advances...
What is commonly referred to in corporate technology lingo as the "Year 2000 problem" arises from the fact that many mainframe computer systems use a two-digit date marker for the year, with the assumption that the first two digits are one and nine. When the year 2000 comes around, thousands of computers will think that 00 means...
...looking for M.D.s," Izzard explains. That's security-guard lingo for "mad dashers"--people who dart out of the crowd without warning and try to touch the star. In Buenos Aires, where the Evita crew spent its first five weeks of filming, M.D.s and other unruly fans were a big problem, and Izzard had to get the help of a six-man security detail. Budapest is more laid back--but so are the police. When the cameras roll, they too stare at Madonna...
...refuses to have premarital sex with his dishy girlfriend Candice (India Landigran), even though, oddly, he seems to live in sin with her. Just to be even-handed, we know that Jane's a jerk because she berates her boyfriend for using styrofoam cups and uses pop-psych lingo, though in temperament she seems less like Oprah than Ilse, She-Wolf...