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...fact is, the women-in-peril films are like most other recent U.S. movies, from Pearl Harbor to In the Bedroom: they are revenge fantasies, playing on the understandable but infantile belief that every atrocity can be overcome by a righteously violent response. But life doesn't work that way, and neither did most of the best old movies. Casablanca and Gone With the Wind did not end happily for their heroines; the frustrations of duty and destiny intervened. In the end, the new women-in-peril films betray a simultaneous naivete (that the heroine will triumph) and cynicism (that...
Thing is, I've never trusted Hollywood endings. The very term suggests something pat, something fully resolved, something less like Pearl Harbor and more like Pearl Harbor. Real life--and great drama--is more difficult, and the endings are more ragged. Berry and Washington deserved their wins; they gave the best performances in their categories. But it should be noted that their roles were not the kind that would have got Malcolm X to give them a standing...
...required 600 effects shots, against the movie average of around 50. Tom Roston, senior editor for film magazine Premiere, believes that comics give studios "intelligent" blockbusters: "Studios want to use their new digital effects, and a lot of the true-life extravaganzas created for that purpose are vapid, like Pearl Harbor. There is often a sense of exploitation of history. Ironically, these comic-book movies with their strong characters and moral themes are deeper, while still entertaining...
Ford loves customers like Gail Reed. Last April, a few months before 0% financing wiped out profit margins on such standard models as Windstars and Tauruses, Reed, an Atlanta accountant, saw a picture of a pearl-white Thunderbird convertible and fell in love. She agreed to pay the full $39,000 sticker price and willingly waited nearly a year for delivery, driving off with her baby a few weeks ago. "I've always owned sensible cars," says Reed, 43 and single. "Then I started thinking, this T-Bird is a great-looking, fun car. If I'm ever going...
...ballplayers at the end of 1941 were in the military by January of 1945. Detroit Tigers slugger and American League Most Valuable Player Hank Greenberg entered the army on May 7, 1941, the day after he hit two home runs against the Yankees and seven months before Pearl Harbor. The season of 1941 was a magical one; Ted Williams hit .406 and Joe DiMaggio hit safely in 56 straight games. By 1943 both were in uniform, spending three years in the prime of their careers serving a calling higher than baseball...