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...these are just a few of the stories from one battleground state. But throughout dozens of states— both blue and red—evidence is accumulating that the presidential election results were, at best, deeply flawed. Of course, the thousands of reports of malfunctioning machines and phantom voters have many people using a different f-word: Fraud...
...decades." Perhaps, but with flying stunts and a house that appears and disappears, the show is dressed to impress. And no wonder, given this team's track record. Mackintosh landed a helicopter on stage in the musical Miss Saigon, crashed a chandelier on the audience in The Phantom of the Opera, and re-created Paris barricades in Les Mis?rables. Schumacher turned the stalls into a jungle in The Lion King, and Bourne made audiences swoon over a flock of male swans in his interpretation of Swan Lake. The team hopes not only to repeat these successes but to surpass them...
...long-awaited assault on Fallujah was officially dubbed Operation Dawn, to signify the promise of a new beginning. But the name the U.S. military had originally given the operation--Phantom Fury--seems more appropriate for the kind of war U.S. forces are fighting. At times the soldiers and Marines trawling Fallujah's alleyways feel as though they are chasing ghosts. Insurgents vanish as the armored columns rumble into town, only to reappear somewhere else, firing from minarets and hiding in houses booby-trapped to blow up. U.S. and Iraqi officials say that their forces have killed as many...
...than others. Back in 1988, after St. Elmo's Fire and The Lost Boys had introduced him as a promising if lightweight young American director (and before Batman Forever sealed his place in the upper reaches of the Hollywood hierarchy), Schumacher decided to see Broadway's newest hit, The Phantom of the Opera. Even before he got the chance, Andrew Lloyd Webber, its composer, called him and mentioned that he wanted to bring the play to the big screen. "Every director in Hollywood wanted to do it," Schumacher recalls. "Because this was already the biggest show in the world." Then...
...will gross $350 million. And what about the 2.9 billion people who haven't seen it?" Such confidence might explain the decision not to cast big names in the lead roles. Moulin Rouge had Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman; Chicago had Renee Zellwegger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere; Phantom has 18-year-old Emmy Rossum (The Day After Tomorrow) and Scott Gerard Butler, 35, best known for 2003's Tomb Raider sequel. The only name is Minnie Driver, who is less than hot these days and has a cameo as the jealous opera diva Carlotta. Although Phantom has kept...