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...fourth dip into the Die Hard franchise two years ago, hasn't come near blockbuster status in the past decade. Reports of friction between the star and his director, Jonathan Mostow, certainly didn't create a must-see mood - though, in a John Horn story in the Los Angeles Times, the principals issued statements of the sort written by lawyers after the settlement of a messy divorce case. (Mostow: "Bruce is a professional ... I admire Bruce as an actor." A Willis spokesman: "Bruce has no problems with Jonathan Mostow at all.") (Read TIME's Surrogates report: "The Zen Machismo...
...indie action, Michael Moore launched Capitalism: A Love Story in just four theaters in New York City and Los Angeles and pulled in a plutocratic $240,000; Moore's cinematic stimulus plan rolls out in full next weekend. Bright Star, Jane Campion's moony tale of the doomed poet John Keats and his soul mate, Fanny Browne, expanded to 130 screens and earned a hearty $682,000 from lovers of sentimental art-house fare. And Coco Before Chanel, one of three biopics of the couturier to be released in theaters or on DVD this year - this one starring Amelie...
...becoming less and less popular too - in an era of tighter purse strings, who wants to heat and cool all that empty space? "Would you rather have the extra volume or a game room upstairs?" asks Ken Gancarczyk, a senior vice president at KB Home who runs the Los Angeles-based builder's architecture group. Buyers, KB is finding, want the room...
Polanski, who won an Academy Award in 2003 for directing The Pianist, admitted to having unlawful sexual intercourse with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer as part of a plea bargain in which other charges - including drugging and raping the girl - were dropped. However, fearful that the Los Angeles judge in the case was about to renege on the deal and slap him with a long prison sentence, Polanski fled the U.S. in 1978 and never returned. He has spent the past 30 years in France, where he has raised a family and continued his career unhindered. That is, until Saturday...
...have to be rhythmically gifted to succeed either. Zamor says she was an overweight graduate student who spent most of her time tied to a computer at a desk before rediscovering the hula hoop at a music-and-arts festival in Los Angeles. "When I got my hoop, I was not a natural," says Zamor, who can now twirl a hoop on virtually every body part, "but I kept practicing and realized that it was something that can be self-taught, even for people who have never hooped in their lives." What's more, says Zamor, hooping cut her stress...