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...MARKETING CAMPAIGN Love the Spielberg movie or hate it, this stealth campaign for the robo-Pinocchio story was popcorn entertainment itself. A network of websites spun a complex murder mystery, never mentioning the movie's plot or its main characters, but hardwiring curious surfers into AI's fictional future world...
...obvious analogies to Afghanistan, will frighten audiences away. This is a matter of some moment to Bruckheimer. His soft-spoken intelligence belies his fame as producer of big-scale action films (Top Gun, Armageddon). At 56, he has reached an age at which he wants to move beyond popcorn movies, and he observes that in Black Hawk Down he and Scott were trying very soberly to make an entire 2 1/2-hr. movie in the spirit of Saving Private Ryan's unforgettably horrific D-day sequence--and without its "good war" rationale. No such glory attaches to Somalia. The country...
...notable innovations were to fill my bag with popcorn and to place an adult magazine entitled “Over 50” in my bag for the security checker to see. In both cases, the guards were nonplussed, and I had to lie about their reactions to make the article entertaining. A few years later, now a seasoned editor of the magazine, I constantly kicked myself for not thinking of additional ways to shock and confuse the library checkers. More food—hot food. Tennis balls that rolled out all over the checker desk and floor. A diorama...
COOKING THE BOOKS: Since September 11, America has been staying home more - "cocooning," as trend expert Faith Popcorn calls it. That involves more cooking, and cooking involves more cookbooks. That's why "A New Way to Cook" (Artisan) by two-time James Beard Award winner Sally Schneider is such a welcome addition to the home library. Publishers Weekly said of the hefty (739-pps) tome in a starred review: "Every era must have its cookbook, and the cookbook for the early 21st century has arrived...
...director Wes Anderson. Their low-budget breakthrough, starring Wilson and his two brothers, Luke, 30, and Andrew, 37, earned some devoted fans and critics, but it didn't set any fires at the box office. Since then, however, Owen has established his unique profile with supporting roles in big popcorn hits like 1998's Armageddon and last year's double-header Meet the Parents and Shanghai Noon. (He wrote some of the latter film's funniest dialogue as Jackie Chan's cowboy sidekick...