Word: macho
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Chicken Run, a comedy-adventure, with feathers, is exactly the picker-upper this macho-movie summer needs. It's a parable of plucky sisterhood: hens who endure life's drab defeats while hoping for a break. The film is funny and touching and beautifully understated; its characters earn big laughs with the subtlest wrinkle of a brow, sobs with a stifled sigh. In a season of nine-figure budgets, the movie was made for chicken feed ($42 million). It also boasts an accent that is defiantly English--Yorkshire, even--with a dash of Yank bravado from visiting star Mel Gibson...
...Rock (Nicolas Cage revving a yellow Ferrari). Beverly Hills Cop, Bad Boys, even Top Gun and Con Air (planes are just cars on a highway of clouds) and Armageddon (grease monkeys in outer space), all celebrate speed, combat and heavy machinery--three things that make every ride a macho adventure. A Bruckheimer movie without a car chase would be like a Woody Allen movie without whining...
...proceeds going to charity. On the Dallas Cowboys' website, fans can purchase keepsakes such as Emmitt Smith's game-worn shoes for $999.99 a pair or Deion Sanders' practice jersey for $699.99. Particularly prized are jerseys with stains or traces of blood. When the Denver Broncos offered such macho-mentos, hard-core fans snapped them...
...filled with baby-blue cashmere turtlenecks. Your handy tool might be a DeWalt drill but all the girls know you can make a mean plate of vegetable lasagna. If you need a simple formula, try straight-boy rage plus feminine passion. So to summarize: Stallone out, Jude Law in. Macho out, unobtrusive self-confidence in. Or maybe it's better put this way-players out, female predators...
...have been something of a pose, but Bush's macho demeanor in the interview revealed a disturbing lack of restraint, a combination platter of unwelcome traits--stubbornness, as he admits, with side dishes of arrogance and an irritability that couldn't be contained even though things are going well for him. He shows a disturbing blindness to the feelings of those around him, whether it's Letterman or those on death row pleading for clemency whom he mocks (Karla Faye Tucker) or the McCain voter...