Word: travolta
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Dahlan, 39, is a veteran leader of the first intifadeh. With his looks and street smarts, he could have been John Travolta if he had been born in California instead of Khan Yunis. Like most Palestinians, he insists that the talks center on how, not whether, Israel should evacuate the territories it conquered in 1967. U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338 stipulated a "land-for-peace" formula, a principle that had formed the basis for the Madrid Peace Conference cosponsored by the U.S. in 1991, as well as the Oslo accords. By recognizing the state of Israel at Oslo, Palestinians felt...
...speak in English but make no sense?), Willem Dafoe (so sure he would be nominated that as the nominations are announced he's already wired for an interview with Matt Lauer on "Today"), Joaquin Phoenix (camped it up in "Gladiator" as if he'd learned acting by watching John Travolta in "Battlefield Earth"), Jeff Bridges (who camped it up as a president in "The Contender" as if he'd learned acting from John Travolta in "Primary Colors...
...Splendid weren't doing it, other German companies probably would be. In the past year, German movie-production companies and film funds have acted as moneymen for a virtual Who's Who of Hollywood that includes John Travolta, Bruce Willis and Tom Cruise. Nearly 20% of the $15 billion that Hollywood is using to make films and videos this year has come from Germany, where in 1999 the words media project had the same dizzying effect on investors as dotcom...
Like this year's presidential campaign, this movie invites smart people to feel superior to it, while the dummies search fruitlessly for its heart and brain. A financially strapped TV weatherman (John Travolta) tries to rip off the state lottery while basking smugly in his local celebrity. Lisa Kudrow is hilarious as his permanently irate accomplice, and Bill Pullman is divinely clueless as the dopey cop pursuing them. It is all, again like our politics, occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling...
...This means that top actors are even busier than usual. Tom Cruise will motor directly from Cameron Crowe's "Vanilla Sky" to Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report." John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Julia Roberts - all are piggybacking big projects. Director Steven Soderbergh has fiddled with the shooting schedule for his remake of "Ocean's Eleven" to accommodate Roberts after she finishes shooting "America's Sweethearts." "I was happy to do make the adjustment," says Soderbergh. "She's doing me an enormous favor...