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...intimate relationship with him is really something," says Hoffman. "We were getting on a plane to shoot a movie in the Dominican Republic"--Andy Garcia's directorial debut, The Lost City, due out in late 2005--"the first time we've worked together in 20 years, and I'm really looking forward to having him as my seatmate. As we sit down, he leans over and says sotto voce, 'Hope you're not the chatty type.' Then he puts on earmuffs, a blindfold and gives me his ass for the next six hours." Hoffman laughs wildly as he tells...
Flailing and financially failing US Airways, in bankruptcy for the second time in three years, canceled dozens of flights and then misplaced an estimated 10,000 bags. Northwest Airlines kept about 280 travelers on a diverted plane for more than 14 hours straight. But Comair, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines based in Cincinnati, Ohio, may have won the Grinch Award: the airline canceled all 1,100 flights on Christmas Day because of what it said was a computer glitch...
...Chicago to go over the design of a proposed Trump residential tower in that city that he had decided should be--what else?--the tallest building in the world, around 2,000 ft. In the midst of their meeting, the two men got word of the first plane that hit the World Trade Center. "When the second plane hit, we all rushed to the television to see what was happening," says Smith. "That was the end of the meeting." And also the end of the 2,000-ft. tower. A few weeks later, Trump's people came back with...
...required need, such as getting a person from one side to another. Now we have a lot of redundancy in structures. If one thing fails, then another will hold, and if that fails, another will hold. It's akin to having five or six engines on a jet plane...
Scorsese movies always have a bounty of great scenes, little miracles of kinesis, and this one is no exception. Any time the film takes place in a plane, it soars (one thrilling takeoff, two amazing crashes). The Aviator has an opulence reminiscent of classic MGM. There's also an efficient crackle to the postwar duel Hughes wages with a crafty Senator (Alan Alda). But this handsome movie is an oddly well-behaved one to come from the preternaturally energetic Scorsese...