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Just because it's getting easier to globe-trot with your stock portfolio doesn't mean you have to do it. But as long as you don't concentrate too much in any one region, it can't hurt much, and it might just help...
...five nominees for Best Picture, only one, TriStar's Jerry Maguire, was produced by one of the major studios. Not that they didn't trot out their usual quota of ambitious and/or self-important "prestige" projects--films whose stars and makers might reasonably have felt they had a shot at winning heaps of major nominations. Why did so many of these offerings fail? Has Hollywood lost the knack for marketing serious pictures? Take blustery movies about killing Englishmen: Does anyone really think Braveheart (last year's Best Picture) is significantly better than Michael Collins (only two minor nominations this year...
Even before the reversal in fortune, The Late Shift was one of the worst ideas for a TV movie ever. Docudramas that trot out actors to impersonate famous people, from Jackie O. to Roseanne, are pointless enough, but to re-create this TV-industry story for a mass audience seems the height of self-absorption. John Michael Higgins does a good job mimicking Letterman's cigar-chomping crankiness, but he's too energetic. Daniel Roebuck has the chin (with the help of prosthetics), but turns Leno into a simpering moron. Yet these characters, at least, will be recognizable to viewers...
...winner of the Westminster Kennel Club dog show?" my wife asked, almost desperately. She knows I love to watch those little woofers trot around the ring at Madison Square Garden...
...SEEING IT: Only when Dole was desperately behind in 1988 did he reluctantly trot out his war wounds. Now he's practically flaunting them. The ad is meant to show Dole as something other than a Beltway big shot, to humanize the chilly candidate and contrast him with his putative opponent, a fellow who agonized about getting out of the draft. The ad harps on Dole's character largely because character is Dole's only message, and his staff hopes to compare his with that of the current occupant of the White House...