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...significant ways, the past movie year has been encouraging for women--that statistical majority that in their presence on the big screen is a frail minority. Start with the money. The year's most profitable picture ($236 million on a $5 million budget) was My Big Fat Greek Wedding, with which Nia Vardalos proved that a woman could walk Sylvester Stallone's Rocky road: write a script, then insist that you star in it. Sweet Home Alabama ($127 million at the domestic box office) certified Reese Witherspoon's star magnetism. Sandra Bullock in Two Weeks Notice ($89 million) and Jennifer...
...sounds New Age--y," Kidman says, "but it's important to help one another rather than compete." Yet competition there is, for so few films. "I was often third down the line," says Catherine Zeta-Jones, a wow as the Chicago virago. "I've sometimes said, 'Give me a screen test,' but how many times can you put up your hand and say, 'What about me?'" Lane acknowledges that actors are artists for hire: "If you're a plumber, there are only a certain amount of pipes that need fixing, and you hope you get the call." Or you make...
...electronic-communications niches. A recent purchase was Wescam, a Canadian maker of stable cameras used by the movie industry to film action scenes--cameras well suited for aerial duty. And L-3 is one of the few suppliers of those hulking new airport luggage scanners mandated by Congress to screen checked bags. L-3's version uses technology originally developed to process military surveillance and reconnaissance photos. The company produces other scanning devices, designed to reveal concealed weapons (including any secreted inside human-body cavities), that are based on technology it supplied to help soldiers and intelligence operatives detect Taliban...
...rubber match would take place in the ECAC championships in front of a league-record crowd of 2,592. Dartmouth would score three goals on screen shots from the point en route to a 3-1 victory. Both teams still advanced to the Inaugural NCAA Frozen Four...
...finagle their way onto the set of Total Request Live. Last month, on my way up to MTV studios on the 23rd floor of the Viacom building in Times Square, I had my ID checked four separate times. I can’t blame them—my MTV screen test was at 1:30 p.m., the precise time when hoards of screaming teenagers crowd the street below the studios, offering anything and everything to snag a seat on Carson Daly’s countdown show...