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...least distinguished Kennedy, "If his name were Edward Moore, [his] candidacy would be a joke." In this season of George W. Bush, a pleasant enough Governor of modest achievement, one is forced to ask, "If his name were George Walker, would he be a presidential candidate, let alone the runaway front runner for the Republican nomination...
...unprecedented. Never has a--let's be honest--weird movie budgeted at a ludicrously low $35,000 stormed both the box office and the national pop consciousness. In its first week of wide release, on 1,101 screens, it earned $50 million--more than the Julia Roberts comedy hit Runaway Bride, which played in nearly three times as many venues. It is likely to have the highest percentage of profit in film history. Its astounding success has made indie-film heroes of its directors, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez. And the marketers at Artisan Entertainment, who built fervid want...
Sure. Especially since they are the best-looking people on display in Runaway Bride, a movie that takes its good-natured time explaining Maggie's curious behavior and balancing it against Ike's less obvious failures (he has an intimacy problem, naturally). That time is for the most part cheerfully spent, however, as he arrives in town hoping to witness her bolt from the altar for a fourth time...
...specter is haunting Wall Street--the specter of runaway interest rates. Yields on bellwether U.S. 30-year Treasury bonds in early June jumped to just over 6%, the highest close in more than a year, as nervous traders bid prices lower. They are taking no chances that a flare-up of inflation will squeeze the real return to buyers...
...finally, in terms of budget, mini. These days an action extravaganza with computer-generated special effects can run up a $120 million tab; often what all those computers generate is a runaway budget. But this summer's two dead-cert hits are the Mike Myers parody Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Adam Sandler's Big Daddy, each of which cost only $30 million. "Even if your comedy has the biggest star in the world--Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy--it's still more economical than a gigantic effects movie," says Amy Pascal, president of Columbia Pictures, which...