Word: sharked
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...ensure the park's prosperity. He even chose the park's "auspicious" opening date. New construction was often begun with a traditional good-luck ceremony featuring a carved suckling pig. (Ironically, Disney kicked up trouble not by being too American but by being too Chinese. Disney offered to serve shark-fin soup at banquets, but the local favorite got yanked from the menu in June after environmentalists, who blame consumption of the delicacy for endangering the global shark population, howled in protest.) "Disney has learned that they can't impose the American will--or Disney's version...
...School. It glamorizes the men's predation by making them charmers who have a great time, and give one too: at receptions Jeremy makes balloon animals for the kids, John schmoozes with the seniors. It conjures up a convenient villain in Claire's boyfriend Sach (Bradley Cooper), a shark-faced sociopath who fools everyone in the family but no one in the audience. It offers the dream of creative fraudulence and the payoff of a frog kissing a princess, if he can only find the right mix of lies and lust. And in the performances of Vaughn and Wilson...
Seeing this blockbuster again, on the 30th anniversary of its release, is to be reminded how important character and dialogue used to be, even in monster movies. For all the fabulous shark battles, Jaws is essentially three guys on a boat, talking out their fears. The extras here include a new-to-DVD documentary on the film's troubled production--its own kind of behind-the-scenes disaster movie. As for the film itself, it's still chatty and teeth-chatteringly suspenseful...
...greatest silent-film directors, went to Tahiti (with documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty) to make this ethnographic idyll spiked with Hollywood-style melodrama. A boy who has fallen in love with a local princess dives for pearls in a deep-sea grotto that is guarded by a possessive shark. The simple story is told with rapturous visual poetry that captures both nature's beauty and its threat. Murnau, 42, had his own rendezvous with tragedy: he died in a car crash shortly before Tabu's release...
...Instead, armed with a green card, McKenzie took a stint on Broadway and a stab at Hollywood, but neither made much of a splash. Munched by a shark in Deep Blue Sea (1999), the New York Times groused: "Jacqueline McKenzie plays a character so vague she might be best described as the movie's extra (and most disposable) woman." Her career philosophy has always been to "throw it all up on the ceiling and something might stick," but for a while nothing much did. Here was the case of a remarkable actress waiting for the next character to click...