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...film Woody plays Val Waxman, a once hot director, now out of fashion, who gets the chance to direct a big-budget movie thanks to the urging of his ex-wife, a studio executive (Tea Leoni in an appealing, intelligent performance). Just before shooting starts, Val gets a case of psychosomatic blindness and must keep his infirmity from the cast and crew. This could be funny if Allen had either the gags to sustain it or the gift of physical comedy to embody it. He has neither, and the film plays like an endless prank call to an industry that...
Fortuyn had laid out some of that political smorgasbord last Monday afternoon at a Hilversum radio studio, where he also predicted he would live to the ripe age of 86. As he left the studio, a gunman approached him in the parking lot and fired five shots, hitting the candidate in the head, chest and neck. He died soon after...
...hotel bar, plates of grilled rabbit and feral cat in front of them. On several occasions, he started to bemoan his working conditions, then abruptly changed the subject. Later, he admitted he's thought about leaving the country, about moving to Australia perhaps and maybe opening a studio there. But he isn't going anywhere. His mother is here, his friends, fans and band mates. And he knows he couldn't equal the success he's had in Burma...
...Powerpuff Girls (July 3): Rumors are that the story has something to do with young girls kicking big amounts of evil booty. From the studio, the official report tells that the story is a Batman Year One-esque digression on the origins of the Powerpuff’s otherworldly girl-power...
...million and seeing it gross more than $35 million domestically? And what about acquiring the French sensation Amelie at script stage for $1 million and watching it gross $31 million in the U.S.? Should Harvey really "admit defeat" after Miramax received 15 Academy Award nominations, the most of any studio? And isn't the impressive upcoming Miramax slate, which includes Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal and George Clooney's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, sufficient proof that Harvey in fact has not "lost his way"? MATTHEW HILTZIK, VICE PRESIDENT Corporate Communications Miramax Films New York City...