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...back in a little bit? I’m being interviewed for FM,” he says. “You don’t have to rub it in my face,” Vanderweil’s apparently jealous ex tells him after he explains his plot to house pre-frosh girls. “That’s not what I want to rub in your face,” he responds, with the utmost of class...
...attacks that officials discovered that four of the September 11 hijackers had been stopped for speeding at various times. If police officers had known that the FBI was looking for the men, law enforcement officials would have had a better chance at tailing them - and perhaps uncovering the terror plot...
...Chinese director Zhang Ming's Weekend Plot was typical. Five friends from Beijing hang out in swimsuits on the Yangtze for about 45 minutes doing nothing. And then for the second half of the film, they do the same. Not a syllable of wit, a whisper of titillation. Jeong Jae Eun's Take Care of My Cat was similarly somnambulant in its treatment of the impending womanhood of five teenaged Koreans. Actress Bae Doo Na, who so lit up last year's Barking Dogs Never Bite, wastes her talent in this cinematic Sargasso Sea that sloshes but never gets roiling...
...music and intertitles, the Japanese stars were not on the screen?but on the stage in front of it. Benshi, or film narrators, had followings of their own; a big-name benshi could pack a house. Throughout the silent era, they mimicked the voices of different characters and provided plot narration to musical accompaniment, in a style familiar from Japan's Bunraku and Noh theaters...
Once again Hollywood has turned to comic books for plot, character and box office power. Despite the initial success of Warner Bros.' Batman franchise (the first installment in 1989 grossed $413 million on a budget of $35 million, but by 1997's Batman & Robin that had dwindled to $130 million on a $110 million budget), successful comic-book adaptations were few and far between. Judge Dredd, starring Sylvester Stallone, in 1995 was the low point, losing around $40 million. Now though, the cinematic landscape has changed. The vampire-hunting Blade grossed over $112 million in 1998, while...