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...like Panic Room, Spider-Man and Men in Black II, the chairman of Sony's Columbia Pictures has generated more than $1 billion at the box office this year. Some in Hollywood are skeptical about the profitability of films with such expensive stars and special effects, but her summer slate of pictures has broken all records. "People want spectacle in the summertime," insists Pascal, 44, "and obviously the ancillary markets [like video and DVD] will be gigantic...
Unlike the Temple and Britannia Cups which featured a full slate of 32 competitors, the tougher Ladies’ Challenge Plate fielded just six boats. With a first-round bye, the Harvard first varsity required just two races to win the title...
...Rogers' Hart phase should be the apprentice work, leading to the fullness of the Hammerstein years. Yet if you listen with alert ears and a clean-slate mind, you might think that the R&Ham songs had come first; for they are ripe with sentimental Americana, fashioned in long melodic lines for big, fluty voices, and grounded in the turn-of-the-century operetta form. They seem far more innocent, more remote from our day, than the R&Hart oeuvre...
...fare to her home village, counsels a woman seeking a job and tenderly tells a young, badly scarred burn victim that he will pay for her operation and follow-up treatment. (Duterte is known to deliver on such promises.) He is politically correct in other ways too: his party slate during the past election included a Christian, a Muslim, a gay man and a disabled candidate...
Miramax has the sharp sex comedy Tadpole (opening July 19) on its summer slate, says Gill, because "a very sophisticated comedy is much tougher to release in the fall, when there are sophisticated dramas." Fox Searchlight is putting out The Good Girl, a dark comedy starring Jennifer Aniston, on Aug. 7, and duplicating the carefully mapped out release pattern it used for The Deep End last year. Like many indie films, The Good Girl will open first in New York City and Los Angeles. "When you don't have big TV-advertising budgets and you're really relying on publicity...