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...Passion of the Christ has come and gone. So has Spider-Man 2. But unless you live in western Michigan, you've probably never heard of this year's longest-running movie, which opened way back on Dec. 5, 2003. That's because Uncle Nino, a sentimental tale starring Joe Mantegna and Anne Archer as a stressed-out couple emotionally disconnected from their kids and each other, is playing at only one theater--in Grand Rapids. What began as a two-week engagement has turned into the longest test-marketing of a film in U.S. history. Director Bob Shallcross...
...using references they would find familiar. His version's heraldic announcements, parallel pregnancies, angelic choirs and shepherd witnesses bear a tantalizing resemblance to another literary form, the reverential "lives" being written about pagan leaders in the same period. In such sagas, a hero is not a hero unless his birth reflects the magnificence of his later achievements, and such super-nativities, originally attached to great figures from antiquity like Alexander the Great, were at that point bestowed upon Roman leaders within decades of their actual deaths. Was Luke selling out the Jewish tradition that had helped shape Jesus and Matthew...
Looking down the line, Schwarzenegger is already collecting donations for his re-election campaign in 2006, although he has not yet announced that he will run. The fund has $1.1 million on deposit. His staff is "operating on the assumption of a re-elect unless he makes a decision otherwise," says spokesman Stutzman. And what about a constitutional amendment that would allow a foreign-born citizen to run for President? "He is in favor of amending the Constitution, but he thinks the amendment shouldn't be about just him," says Stutzman. The talk of a presidential...
...control, and engineers were heading for the exits. Suh started paring debt and halved the work force, a gutsy move in layoff-averse Korea. The hard-driving Suh, who counts Jack Welch and Margaret Thatcher among his heroes, dismantled Eastel Systems' hierarchy, which stopped anybody from making a decision unless the boss was around. Now he enjoys sitting with his employees over a meal of grilled pork and fiery Korean-style rice wine. His strategy is paying off. Debt is down 60%, and Eastel expects to eke out a small profit this year, while competitors are going bust...
...times or symptom of Broadway's creative poverty? Let's just say that in an era of soaring costs and a dearth of new plays with any assurance of drawing an audience, it's a perfectly logical commercial development. With only one salaried actor and minimal sets and costumes (unless you are Dame Edna), those shows are cheaper to produce than full-scale plays. "You've got a lot less risk with a one-person show and pretty much the same opportunity to make money," says Jay Larkin, an executive producer at Showtime, responsible for Cantone's show, Laugh Whore...