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...Crowe is a three-time Academy Award nominee (he won Best Actor for 2000's Gladiator). He is not yet the biggest box-office draw on the planet (that's Tom Cruise), but he has jumped Cruise and Tom Hanks in many directors' casting wish lists. "He gets offered everything--or everything good--first," says an agent. (Crowe turned down the Hugh Grant part in About a Boy, the Laurence Fishburne part in The Matrix and Viggo Mortensen's role in The Lord of the Rings, among others.) But where Hanks and Cruise insinuated their way into moviegoers' hearts...
...megabytes Average amount of information produced annually per person on the planet?equivalent to 1,333 copies of Tolstoy's War and Peace
From 22,000 miles out in space, satellites beam TV, radio and phone signals to nearly the entire planet...
Alien tells the story of a crew of space explorers whose return to earth is postponed when they receive an SOS signal from a nearby planet. Ordered to investigate, they discover a damaged spacecraft infested with thousands of alien eggs. When one of the eggs hatches and its man-eating inhabit arrives aboard the humans’ own ship, the crew endangered and a mutiny nearly breaks out when Lieutenant Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) tries to get the crew to leave, despite the new weaponry it is believed they might find...
...Nostromo” is magnificent on screen, its halls full of beautiful detail from the dazzling interface of the computer “Mother” to the damp, organic airducts in which the crew confronts the alien. Many of the small details of the ship and mysterious planet jump off the screen in the reissue...