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...enjoying fast-growing sales. Already some wealthy Russian oligarchs have jumped into Ukraine's market. They include Oleg Deripaska of the aluminum group Rusal, which has acquired Ukraine's Mykolayiv alumina refinery, and Mikhail Fridman of Alfa Group, which has an oil refinery in the country. The trick for Ukraine's new government is to keep such momentum going and build on it. The events of the past few months have "created a high level of trust and confidence in this country," says Kinakh, the First Deputy PM. "It's a chance we must use. Unless we guarantee safe business...
...first trick with child actors is to make filming serious enough so that they know they must apply themselves yet fun enough so that it's play. "If you make them self- conscious," says Boyle, "it's gone." The second trick is to retain their spontaneity and keep them from being and looking bored on the fourth or fifth take. Boyle's strategy: "I act very stupid. I'm an encourager, so I'll say, 'Very good, everyone! Let's do it again!'" Of course, that doesn't fool them. "They say, 'Why? You just said it was really good...
...pseudo-religious shenanigans of Constantine, its most astounding trick thus far has been its successful evasion of criticism from Christian media watchdog groups. Since Constantine’s release last Friday, the usual religiously conservative voices of outrage at pop-culture blasphemers have largely been silent. In recent years, movies taking similar liberties with religious content have drawn highly publicized protest: the 1999 comedy Dogma, for example, spurred the Catholic League to circulate petitions and run New York Times ads calling for a boycott of the movie. The outrage at 1973’s The Exorcist was so widespread...
...fiction with such postmodern glee that no single injury or injustice in its plotline piracies can be found. Cinematically, Constantine sets the stage for its myriad “borrowings” and patchworking of sources with an opening sequence of scenes that overtly steal virtually every movie trick in the book...
...Spear of Destiny was last seen during World War II —it must have been the Nazi backup plan after the whole Holy Grail debacle in Alexandretta. Constantine’s ride, the Angel City cab, even uses the transportation-name-as-witty-commentary trick of A Streetcar Named Desire, or more recently, The Royal Tenenbaums’ Gypsy Cabs. Then the exorcism—wait, was that Sigourney Weaver from Ghostbusters lying possessed on the bed? No, just some other actress who has captured that grotesque, demonic, yet unsettlingly sexual demeanor that adds...