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...True Lies cost more than $100 million, so what? Hollywood frets when a huge-budget film is a flop (like Schwarzenegger's Last Action Hero) and purrs when one is a hit (like T2). As Schwarzenegger notes, "The press thinks movie studios should be reviewed like the government -- as if public money were spent and a crime committed. Well, it's not their money, it's the studios' money. Sometimes money is spent wisely, sometimes not. But it's like that in every business...
...budget story, anyway. The box-office story unfolds this weekend. True Lies will probably connect with the movie public; it delivers lots of ballistics for the buck. T2 dazzled with the computer magic of morphing, but the software used in True Lies is less noticeable than the hardware. Says Cameron: "There's nothing that gets the back of your mind screaming, 'That's impossible!' It's revolutionary technology in the service of a photorealistic end product." That translates into seamless digital imagery and nifty stunts. When a Harrier jet isn't flying around Miami, a villain is negotiating a breathless...
...47th National Summer Candy Exposition, recently held in the Hynes Convention Center, the nightmarish goodies were out in full force: Mega Warheads, tear Jerkers, Cry Babies. feeding off the success of the movie "Terminator 2," was "T2--The Ultimate Jawbreaker," which has a hot endocore center. That's right, a hot endocore center. This is not a science project. It's something to ingest...
Nicolet's exhibit featured one of theconvention's most spectacular items, "the actualTerminator endoskeleton used in the future warscene of Terminator 2." This frighteningmannequin was used to market Nicolet's newestproduct. "T2--the Ultimate Jawbreaker." Emblazonedwith red and orange flames, this piece of candyhas a "hot endocore center," Nicolet said...
...T2 is the latest variation on the "motherof all Jawbreakers," Nicolet's standard product.This giant spherical delight takes 30 days to makeand seven days to eat. Nicolet said only onecustomer has ever challenged this data--a teenagegirls who wrote to him claiming she's stayed upall night and completed her jawbreaker. Nicoletsaid he doubts her methods were scientific...