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Emboldened, people power caught fire, and the police just let it burn. Few troops were willing to stand in the way when the toughs from Cacak, another heartland town that had taken an almost martial stance, mounted their "people's tanks"--excavators and bulldozers--and headed for Belgrade on Thursday. Led by their charismatic mayor, Velimir Ilic, the men of Cacak were coming to enforce Kostunica's demand that the President concede defeat by 3 p.m. The challenger had called on the entire populace to fill up the capital as a sign of its determination...
Actors, Alba among them, will always tell you it's about the craft. Being the character, living the memories, blah blah blah. Which is true--but let's not kid ourselves. Alba's role is a physical one, and not just because of the Matrix-y martial-arts scenes, for which she studied kung fu and gymnastics. In the Buffy age, you're no heroine if you're not a babe, and the curvy Alba, 19, was pegged as TV's next hot young thing a year before the show even debuted...
...finding Hollywood so far? "I've met a lot of hypocrites." How did she approach her part? "I pretended it was a rap song, and I would recite my lines and recite them until I got the rhythm of it." Whom does she admire? "I freakin' love [martial-arts star] Michelle Yeoh! She kicks ass, like, whassup...
...Keanu Reeves pulled off the all-black wardrobe and the funky martial arts in The Matrix simply because the boy is cool enough to look effortless and comfortable in the rockiest (and conversely, cheesiest) of situations. The word 'effortless,' however, doesn't apply to Tom Cruise. Cruise isn't a natural - every one of his pained, constipated expressions reflects his inability to just go with the flow. In a movie like Jerry Maguire, the effort pays off because the part requires unbounded earnestness. The role of Ethan Hunt in MI2 demands just the opposite - a casual aloofness, a confident grace...
Bush couldn't get away with crying foul when Gore asks him for his plan for Medicare Part B if the media refs weren't acting prissy too. After Monica, the press is aiming for a campaign that merits a Junior League seal of approval. Gore was labeled "martial" by the Washington Post last week for saying "I hope that my opponent will also present to you specifics of how he would address the problem of children who do not have health coverage today." Viewer discretion advised...