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...made public, she said, that NASA had evidence of life on Mars, and he let her read an advance copy of Hillary Clinton's convention speech. He told her his secret nickname for Clinton--"the Monster," inspired by Clinton's temper. Morris told Rowlands that he calls Hillary "the Twister," because she stirs up trouble. In a notebook that Rowlands says is her diary of the affair, she recorded Morris telling her he also called Clinton "the blind man" because "he's super-intellagent [sic] but has no common sense or compassion." She reported that Morris liked to suck...
Dole stumbled into a confounding question: What is a family movie? It's hard even for the industry to say. Certainly a lot of children have seen violent summer blockbusters like Independence Day, Twister and Mission: Impossible--movies that, while not gorefests, are hardly what Walt Disney would have envisioned as wholesome entertainment...
...problems that won't end with the closing ceremonies. "The movie business isn't bleeding to death, but it's bleeding," says Herbert Allen Jr., the entertainment industry's eminent investment banker. It wouldn't appear that way from the resounding success of such megahits as Independence Day and Twister, but Hollywood's economics are a mess. Last year the industry brought in $5.5 billion, and through the first half of this year ticket sales are up 14% compared with 1995, according to the Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Trouble is, the number of films in wide release has risen...
...really, to see some alternative rocker smash his guitar? If you've seen Tom Cruise hurled from an exploding helicopter onto a moving train, is it really that thrilling to see a bassist jump from the top of a three-foot amp? If you've just seen a twister tear apart a town, doesn't a mere mosh pit lose some of its anarchic...
...busy summer for the paranormal: The Arrival sent Charlie Sheen off to battle aliens (involved in a, yes, government conspiracy), and this week, in Phenomenon, John Travolta undergoes a mysterious hoisting of his IQ and psychic powers. The season has already been a sweltering one for blockbusters: Twister has earned more than $215 million at the U.S. box office, Mission Impossible more than $160 million. But ID4, with heroic humankind battling an army of soulless space lizards, may well be the biggest. Says Steven Spielberg, who evoked the wonder of interplanetary communication in Close Encounters of the Third Kind...