Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that the filming would take place undisturbed. Bottando says one scene was set at nearby Chicago Stadium before a Bulls game, but the building's manager called the extras "animals" and refused to open the stadium doors. "I know the guy's family," says Bottando. "They're from Evergreen Park" -- a middle-class village near Chicago -- "Ever-WHITE Park, just like I am." The scene was filmed with the doors shut. (The Chicago Stadium manager didn't return phone calls to his office, and a man answering his home phone, when asked about the incident, said, "Don't know...
Perhaps the most surprising thing is that many travelers do their best to seek out infamous mayhem. Which may explain the explosion of tourism in Northern Ireland, where the 24-year feud between Protestants and Catholics offers a kind of terrorism theme park. So great is the demand that Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political wing, keeps running out of its "freedom map" of West Belfast, which pinpoints the cemetery where hunger striker Bobby Sands is buried, British observation posts, and the "peace line," a concrete barricade separating the city's Catholic and Protestant districts. Tourists who follow...
Wait a minute. Except for Jurassic Park, whose PG-13 rating is meant to scare off the very young, these are all what used to be called adult movies. Wasn't this supposed to be the Summer of Boys? Weren't the studios primed for pint-size blockbusters about 12-year-old emotional overachievers? Well, yes -- and the kids are at the movies too. Free Willy (a boy and his whale) has struck a heart chord; this inexpensive tearjerker will earn about $80 million. Rookie of the Year (a boy and his fastball) and Dennis the Menace...
People of all ages are getting the moviegoing habit this summer. Over Memorial Day weekend, Sylvester Stallone went sky-high with Cliffhanger, but that was just a sneak preview of the sweltering summer box office. In June, Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, which will soon become the second highest- grossing film in history (after Spielberg's E.T.), got everybody into the theaters. Viewers liked what they saw and kept coming back. Sleepless in Seattle enticed the cooing couples. The Firm, In the Line of Fire and Rising Sun proved there was a huge July audience for old-fashioned suspense films...
...brand names in 1993, movies used a lure that worked well 50 years ago: popular novels. In the past four summers, only two Top 10 films (Presumed Innocent and Patriot Games) were based on familiar book titles. Michael Crichton alone will match that number this year, with Jurassic Park and Rising Sun, and the film of John Grisham's The Firm will be the season's second biggest hit. "Isn't it encouraging," asks Kaufman, "to know that some people might have read a book...