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...CINEMA Tout Hollywood is abuzz about The Player. Now it's your turn...
Worshipers are signing a petition condemning the ads, which tout the chapel and its indigenous liturgy as "just one of the many wonders . . . waiting for you," along with shopping for local weavings. Tourism official Marsha Adams acknowledges that the state should have consulted the Archdiocese of Santa Fe before launching the ad campaign, which probably will never run again. Meanwhile, in another manifestation of their protest, pilgrims say they will bar tourists from photographing their procession...
...movie-factory treadmill and in Europe's atelier system, made movies without having to fret that $100 million was riding on the outcome. And generations of moviegoers were privileged to sit in the innocence of a dark theater without having to study the list of weekend grosses like a tout sheet. Who knew, back then, what pictures hit and what flopped...
Taxed as regular income at rates up to 31%, most types of capital gains would get a substantial break if the Administration has its way. Republicans tout the measure as a stimulant to investment; Democrats attack it as a handout to the wealthy...
...flops early, Democrats will continue to bash Bush for his preoccupation with foreign affairs. Well before the plunge in Bush's poll ratings lured Buchanan into the race, some Democrats were honing variations on isolationist and protectionist themes. Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder came to New Hampshire in August to tout what he calls a "Put-America-First Initiative." He echoes Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who has stridently attacked Bush for his foreign travels, lambasted the free-trade treaty that the Administration is negotiating with Mexico and carped about foreign aid. While insisting that he is neither an isolationist...