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...type tunes for girl groups and beach boys. Hanks' new film That Thing You Do!, about the Wonders, an imaginary pop group from Erie, Pennsylvania, features songs in the style of the Beatles, the Ronettes, the Ventures, Jan and Dean, even a little bogus Bacharach. And the ultimate British rip-off group, the Rutles, are cashing in on the Anthology with their own Archaeology CD--satire you can hum along with...
...peddling jeans, mostly around New York State. In 1984, with backing from Hong Kong tycoon Mohan Murjani, he set up his own shop. Hilfiger led with his chin, with ads in which he compared himself to Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. The industry laughed--here was a tyro pushing rip-off designs and affecting to be an immortal. But Hilfiger was dogged. He came to recognize the flair in black street style, recombined it with his preppie instinct and found a niche in fashion no one can laugh...
Look again. The Rock, directed by Michael Bay (Bad Boys) and written by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner, is less a rip-off than a corrective. Slick, brutal and almost human, this is the team-spirit action movie Mission: Impossible should have been...
...Rock, this week's entry in the summer movie testostero-thon, looks like an instant sequel to Mission Impossible. Look again. Directed by Michael Bay (Bad Boys) and written by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner, the movie is less a rip-off than a corrective. "This is the team-spirit action movie Mission Impossible should have been," says TIME's Richard Corliss. A tortured general (Ed Harris) and some renegade Marines seize Alacatraz, take 81 tourists hostage and threaten to launch gas rockets across the bay to vaporize San Francisco. An FBI biochemist (Nicolas Cage) is dispatched...
...Rock, this week's entry in the summer movie testostero-thon, looks like an instant sequel to Mission Impossible. Look again. Directed by Michael Bay (Bad Boys) and written by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner, the movie is less a rip-off than a corrective. "This is the team-spirit action movie Mission Impossible should have been," says TIME's Richard Corliss. A tortured general (Ed Harris) and some renegade Marines seize Alacatraz, take 81 tourists hostage and threaten to launch gas rockets across the bay to vaporize San Francisco. An FBI biochemist (Nicolas Cage) is dispatched...