Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Jacket copy for The Tenth Justice promises "dialogue as true as it is sharp-witted." But sure enough, by page four, a superior is telling our hero Ben Addison, "You are the hottest property on the board. You're Boardwalk and Park Place...
Only the movie business is better at creating summertime hype. But the amusement-park industry has a boast that remains astoundingly extradimensional (after all, cinematic thrills extend no farther than the screen): 20 new roller coasters are opening this year. Hold on tight. This is theater in the round, zooming off into real flights of fancy...
...providing symbols for everything from the dollar bill to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The city of Washington was planned and built according to such models, and structures like the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial have helped transform the capital into a "historic theme park" laid out to teach Americans the virtues of civilization. In a poignant segment, Hughes stands alongside the black granite walls of the Vietnam Memorial and learns from mourners and visitors what the site means to them...
...years of working on American Visions taught him a few things about our art--and our country. One lesson, learned while shooting the TV series: "The rarest thing in the Great American Outdoors is a moment of silence. Every time we turned on a camera in some national park or other, a chain saw began howling a mile away, or children in beanies appeared over a nearby rock asking what we were...