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...scene from his movie, a mother casts her baby out to sea in a visual retelling of Moses in the bulrushes, replete with rats and sunken trailer homes. The image is set against a stark, gaping landscape reminiscent of Oppenheimer's native New Mexico...
Meanwhile, the trailer park, long one of America's least vaunted institutions, the Cheez Whiz of vacation destinations, has been enjoying a concomitant makeover. Some offer golf courses and health clubs. While the price of real estate has kept the number of private parks like Kampgrounds of America and Yogi Bear's Jellystone Park more or less constant, public parks have expanded their RV facilities to attract people who want the great outdoors without too much of the out-of-doors part. "People don't want to sleep on the ground as much as they used to," says Debbie Brunaforte...
...Titanic sail on time? Will Men in Black extend Will Smith's reign as the Fresh Prince of Independence Day weekend? As the race for big box office heats up, bad guys could emerge as movie MVPs--flamboyant, instantly recognizable characters who can make an impact in a short trailer or be miniaturized and slipped into a Happy Meal. "Heroes have to be drawn according to more conventional terms," says Hollywood Reporter columnist Martin Grove. "When you have these huge-event pictures with megabudgets, villains become the jewels in the crown." Sure, heroes like Jodie Foster...
...some grotesque comic traction when Maggie and Sam move from the passive to the active mode, their prime target being poor Anton. We, in turn, find ourselves in a theater of cruelty, which is about the last place we expected to be if we believed the ads and the trailer, consoling ourselves with incidental pleasures: the anti-comedic darkness of Dunne?s lighting and sensibility; the relentless, half-mad meanness of Ryan?s performance; the snarling strength Karyo demonstrates in multiple adversity. Too bad we can?t reward their bravery with the sound of more than one hand clapping...
...follow-up to his best-selling novel was less a continuation of the original than a rewrite. It provided just two notions that excited Spielberg: the existence of a secret island where the DNA dinos had been created, and a set piece where a T. rex tries pushing a trailer off a cliff after its babies are threatened by scientists...