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...Feng, maker of smash hits Be There or Be Square and Sorry Baby, is China's most commercial filmmaker. Although Big Shot is his biggest project to date, this is not one of his more coherent efforts. He should either have explored the film-within-a-film theme more fully, or played for giggles; the two make discordant bedfellows. Characters drift from serious to incredibly silly. Sutherland shuffles around the Forbidden City, pontificating on Bernardo Bertolucci, on how to mix Western and Eastern cinematic culture and make the combination appeal to both audiences. Ge You delivers the movie's standout...
That stumbling block was UConn, the No. 1 team in the country. Early foul trouble doomed Teasley while the Huskies went on to smash the Tar Heels...
...phone users to the Internet. Japanese consumers loved the simple-to-use service and quickly adopted it for diversions such as online gaming, wireless e-commerce and displaying Hello Kitty on their color screens. Unlike clumsy WAP services offered elsewhere in the world, DoCoMo's proprietary system was a smash, registering 120% growth in new subscribers over the half-year ending Sept. 30. DoCoMo's profits leaped tenfold in four years; for the last fiscal year, ended March 2001, it posted record earnings of $3 billion. Last year DoCoMo overtook Toyota as Japan's biggest company, measured by market capitalization...
...with five plot lines and (by Nair's count) 68 characters, feels like her first real epic, but it started small. It cost only about $2 million and the shoot took 30 days, with up to four scenes a day filmed on handheld cameras. Although it's been a smash with critics, Monsoon Wedding isn't up for a foreign-film Oscar this year - India chose period blockbuster Lagaan as its official contender - but Nair hopes it can qualify for the other categories next time, since it was just released in the U.S. last week. By then, we'll know...
...smash them among rocks...