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...greens has become, as former Nissan design chief Jerry Hirshberg says with a sigh, "a religious war." On one side are devout environmentalists and icky Hollywood types, as well as reputable safety experts who say SUVs can be death machines. A lefty group called the Detroit Project has produced slick ads charging that because SUVs use so much gas, and because some of the crude oil for that gas comes from the Middle East, and because some oil-rich princes have funded Islamic extremists, SUV owners are supporting terrorists. (Got it?) Some of the anti-SUV people take their mischief...
...them for novelties or for transport vehicles, garbage trucks, ice-cream vans." Another big manufacturer, Asian Quality Company, is exporting a VIP tuk tuk to Egypt and Europe, mainly for use at resorts. It costs $4,750, almost double the price of the basic model and boasts a slick, aerodynamic look, a cleaner-running four-stroke LPG-burning engine, and could almost pass for a minivan except that it has three wheels...
...haired, Abagnale lives with his wife of 26 years in Tulsa, Okla., where he has made millions as a consultant who teaches corporations how to avoid getting bilked by guys like the one he used to be. His old self comes out in his lectures, where he is a slick but likable showman. "It's only 90 minutes," says Tom Hanks, who went to one to research the role of the FBI agent who nabbed Abagnale. "But it's the best one-man show you'll possibly ever see." In the movie, Abagnale's character is just as entertaining...
...stars. Catherine Zeta-Jones' sultry Welsh purr masks a singing voice that is pure Broadway belt, and the moment she opens her mouth with the familiar first song, All That Jazz, the movie takes flight. Richard Gere seems more awake than he has in years as Billy Flynn, the slick lawyer who in one number plays puppet master to a chorus line of reporters. Gere not only sings but tap-dances...
...doesn't even bother with cool camera tricks or slick-looking shots in the film. "This movie was so complicated conceptually that I tried to shoot it much more simply," he says. "If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances." In the final cut, he excised the most indulgent scene of the movie--a long, violent fight between Aristotle and Charles Darwin--even though it meant having to take Nicolas Cage, who plays Kaufman, out to dinner. "Nicolas said it would never make the movie...