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...Hardball, currently shooting in Chicago, KEANU REEVES plays a ticket scalper sentenced to coach some Little League ragamuffins from the Cabrini-Green housing project. Sounds saccharine enough for a Robin Williams flick, but the film, very loosely based on actual events, has Chicago Mayor Richard Daley fuming. A copy of the screenplay Daley obtained has Reeves' li'l sluggers acting like delinquents and making liberal use of the F word. (You'd think Daley might protest that the film's central plot device is stolen from that 1992 classic, The Mighty Ducks--but no.) "They just don't want this...
...inherited $60,000 from a Danish widow b) He edged out Robin Williams in the Hairiest Primate Alive competition c) Eastwood committed to Every Which Way but Loose 3: Still Loose d) Heston...
Except for an uneasy turn as the caped japester in 1997's Batman and Robin, Clooney hadn't got closer to a $100 million movie than the fifth row of the Beverly Center 13. Crowe and Jackman, those Australian-bred hunks of smoldering beefcake, may be headliners in the making, but they're not made yet. As for the other two--well, their parents must be very proud...
...terrorist group. Since then, the group has killed an additional 22 Greek and foreign nationals, including four American officials. Saunders, 53 and the father of two, was the first British envoy to be slain by the notorious terrorists, who are occasionally portrayed by Greek media as latter-day Robin Hood ideologues, battling Western overlords and NATO in pursuit of Greek interests, and in defense of Greece's onetime close allies the Serbs. When NATO launched its 1999 bombing blitz of Yugoslavia, 17 November, plus a sideshow of some 80 extremist groups, retaliated in Greece with a spate of bomb...
...forest in India's longest-running manhunt. It has yielded nothing. Why not? It is often said that the bandit bribes politicians and policemen to tip him off about commando operations. But he also has a network of informers, who dread and respect him. Like a modern-day Robin Hood, he helps the poor with money but demands absolute loyalty in return. His most popular deed was the alleged killing of an associate for raping a tribal woman...