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...cover. Not only did I fantasize about shooting rockets out of my trombone case El Mariachi style, when I bought my DVD player, The Faculty was the first disc I purchased. That is because Rodriguez, the mastermind of such blood-spattered action spectaculars as Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn, is, quite simply, one of the most extravagantly entertaining filmmakers working today. Crimson Arts recently caught up with the laid-back, low-budget icon at a college roundtable to discuss his latest madcap action-thriller, Spy Kids...
...right, first things first. The man behind Desperado and From Dusk Till Dawn decides to make a kiddie flick. Have you gone soft on us or what...
Jacky talks about killing him, slitting his throat from 3 till 9 and hanging him upside down so the blood drains out of him the way it ran from the baby pigs they used to slaughter in her village before a funeral feast. He deserves it, really, she says, for his freeloading, for his hanging around, for how he just stands there, spindly legged and narrow chested and pimple faced with his big yearning eyes, begging for another...
...capital spending is till going down the tubes, and Wall Street continues to fear for companies. If the economy has really turned around, eventually the markets will get in line with that. But what's happening Wednesday should pretty much give the lie to the idea that with one rally and a good consumer confidence report, it was going to be all bulls from here...
...ballroom sits Miramax co-chair Harvey Weinstein. In his speech from the stage he ruefully acknowledges that the company will probably have an empty-handed Oscar night for the first time in many years. But he rejects the view that Miramax had gone gooey with "Chocolat." "Wait till you see the first few minutes of "Gangs of New York?" he teases, referring to the long-awaited Martin Scorsese movie, which has been shooting in Italy. This is vintage Weinstein. He turns this year's Oscar disappointment into next year's Oscar anticipation. He is part Louis B. Mayer, part...