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...current claimant to the title of Black Widow is trying to lure more men into her web, by using the Web -- from prison, no less. Jill Coit, who has been married 11 times to 9 men and is currently serving a life sentence without parole for murdering one of them, posted an ad online offering herself for marriage to men looking for U.S. citizenship...
...offering a standard room, with all those freebies and more, starting at about $315 a night (that's down from nearly $900 in January). Both Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways and Singapore Airlines are offering one free night in a hotel in their respective hub cities to lure passengers transiting to other destinations. Until May 31, Cathay Pacific is offering travelers an All Asia Pass, which includes a round-trip ticket from either New York City or Los Angeles to Hong Kong, for $999, with as many as 17 round-trip tickets in 30 days from Hong Kong...
After the Pirates made him their 10th-round pick in 1992, the lure of professional baseball made his decision to play fairly easy...
MULAN (June 19). A girl becomes a woman warrior in this chow-mein cartoon: Chinese savor meets American-do. Now that industry analysts no longer expect every Disney animated feature to do $300 million domestic, they can appreciate the suave storytelling and cross-generational lure of a nice little epic like this. And accountants at the Mouse House can expect black ink, not Mulan rouge...
SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (July 24). Tom Hanks, Hollywood's most improbably reliable box-office lure, hasn't starred in a film since 1995, so it's nice that his friend Steven Spielberg gave him this chance for a comeback, in a World War II G.I. drama with Matt Damon. The potential gross here is the same as for an old Hanks film...