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Consider that the top-billed players of the five films after M:I2 were, in descending order of earnings and ascending levels of incredulity, Russell Crowe (Gladiator, $182 million), George Clooney (The Perfect Storm, $174 million), Hugh Jackman (X-Men, $149 million), Shannon Elizabeth (Scary Movie, $147 million) and D.B. Sweeney (the voice of the iguanodon in Dinosaur, $134 million...
...Reported by Ann Blackman, Jay Branegan, Elaine Shannon and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...SHANNON HENRY, 30 Known as the dotcom diva, Shannon Henry has a reputation as the leading technology writer in Washington. She joined the Washington Post two years ago as a business writer after working for the Christian Science Monitor and the American Banker. Her Post columns, more than 200 of them since September 1998, cover everyone and everything from Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen to BlackBerrys (a new model of handheld e-mail device). Other subjects have included woman investors, venture-capital funding, the political battle over high-tech immigration policy, e-commerce, wiring at the Pentagon and spreading...
Along East Sprague, where the clamor of freight trains punctuates the night and the Rainbow Tavern advertises "cold beer and hot women," a giant billboard remains standing. In large black letters it demands HELP US FIND OUR KILLER! above photographs--some smiling, some sullen--of Sherry, Shannon and Shawn, of Melody, Melinda and Michelyn, of Sunny, Heather, Laurie and Linda. The first three bodies turned up in 1990 along forested roadsides outside Spokane. Another was found two years later, then another...
...Shannon's sentiments, if a little overenthusiastic, are fairly orthodox. You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who does not outwardly profess that a market correction and a separation of wheat from chaff are good for Internet business. But a lot of get-rich-quick dreams have died, and it would be surprising if disappointment did not manifest itself...