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...even the most brazen strategists can sometimes trump themselves. And the Serbs did so last week by launching a raid on a United Nations weapons center in an abandoned factory just west of Sarajevo. The Ukrainian peacekeepers guarding the depot were taken completely by surprise, not realizing the predawn smash-and-grab had taken place until they spotted the Serbs rolling a T-55 tank, two armored personnel carriers and an anti-aircraft gun out the main gate...
Walt Disney Co. will pull its animated summer smash "The Lion King" out of theaters on September 23, and re-release the film in late November in hopes of dominating the year's two biggest movie seasons. This novel marketing strategy is intended to coincide with school vacations, revitalizing the movie's audience appeal and chances for Academy Award nominations, which occur in the winter. Though the movie has been the source of some controversy over political incorrectness and threats of a lawsuit over copyright violations by a Japanese firm, no changes to the film's content are planned. Total...
...Canadian comic, 32, has been having too good a time lately to search for the Inner Jim. And so has anyone who has seen Carrey inhabit dozens of roles on Fox's prime-time skitcom In Living Color or commandeer the big screen in last winter's smash Ace Ventura Pet Detective. That rowdy farce, cagily directed by Tom Shadyac, earned $72 million at the domestic box office. Coupled with big expectations for Carrey's new fantasy-comedy The Mask, it kicked the actor's price from $750,000 to $7.5 million for headlining Dumb and Dumber, due early next...
...VOODOO LOUNGE" CLEARLY indicates that Richards controls the band's overall direction more than anyone else. It appears to be no coincidence that Mick Jagger hasn't had a real solo smash-hit since "Lucky at Love." The problem is that Jagger just doesn't sound right fronting the Expensive Winos...
...office crown and the Oscar for Best Picture -- Rocky, Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man -- were canny, poignant fables of men in domestic crisis. Throw in two other high-grossing Oscar winners, Platoon and Terms of Endearment, and you have the recipe for a "mature," feel-good smash. Let's see: retarded man, family man, Vietnam hero and lots of decent folks on their deathbeds. The movie is not only a greatest-hits rendering of 25 years of Americana, it's a distillation of humanist culture in commercial movies...