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GIOVANNI RIBISI, right, has been in good movies, like Saving Private Ryan, and bad movies, like The Postman. He's had more than a few flings with TV. (Who could forget the immortal My Two Dads?) But The Mod Squad is his first experience with a movie made from a TV show. His approach? Take it all very seriously. "Even if I do a porno movie, I want it to be profound," he says. But he and co-stars CLAIRE DANES and OMAR EPPS, left, have their work cut out for them if they want profundity from a remake...
...reason: By some estimates, unsolicited junk messages account for more than 15% of all Internet e-mail--and as much as 30% on America Online, where spammers' "robots" cruise chat rooms to collect screen names. Spam is particularly obnoxious because, unlike the direct-mail solicitations that come via the postman, the online recipient pays the delivery cost...
With something of the same method and intent, Mamet writes about Hollywood. His plays, films and essays contain many scalding observations on mainstream filmmaking. Yet from 1981's The Postman Always Rings Twice through The Verdict, The Untouchables, Hoffa and The Edge, Mamet has written solid, burly movies for top producers and stars while pursuing a parallel career with the modestly budgeted films he writes and directs himself. "I'm really fortunate," he says. "I have some good friends and supporters in Hollywood." And he knows that part of his job as a filmmaker is "shaking money out of those...
Titanic has averted disaster at the box office, but at least one of Hollywood's big holiday pictures has rammed a major iceberg: KEVIN COSTNER'S apocalyptic drama The Postman. The $80 million epic, which spent only one week among the 10 top-grossing films, will struggle to earn $20 million at the domestic box office. Though it could do better internationally, the film seems likely to rank as one of this market's costliest flops ever. It caps a miserable year for its studio, Warner Bros., which, according to Variety, dropped from second to fourth in market share...
...POSTMAN Video-store bait: Kevin Costner's movie about post-apocalyptic America sinks like a stone...