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...record, the film is not entirely awful. “Ben-Hur” had Jesus, “The Fast and the Furious” had Vin Diesel; Lohan and the apparently-possessed Volkswagen known as Herbie are, perhaps, heroes for our time. The plot, in which a disgraced Herbie is reluctantly rescued from the junk-heap and proceeds to reclaim his former glory as an unlikely racing star, is cute enough...
...Pacifier, out on DVD this week, Vin Diesel trades destruction for diaper duty. In real life, baby sitting was a surprisingly comfortable...
...makers of the Matrix trilogy, Portman plays a suspected terrorist in a totalitarian state. Days after the shoot, she says, "I can't stop rubbing my head. It's so soft, I might keep it for a while." Hmm, a hot new bald star with action-adventure experience? Somewhere Vin Diesel's agent is quietly freaking...
...were asking for freedom fries--hold the steak au poivre. But Joe devoted Gallo's huge resources to the challenge. First, the Modesto, Calif., company found a French partner--wine cooperative Sieur d'Arques, in the southern Languedoc area, the region that produces much of France's lower-priced vin ordinaire. Sieur would harvest the grapes and make the wine; Gallo would handle marketing and distribution. Then, after sending a crew of Gallo researchers and Grey Advertising executives to southern France, Gallo coined an evocative name--Red Bicyclette--and devised a friendly label with a fun cartoon of a Frenchman...
...that once were rare intrusions in the sports pages but now are staples? Russell Baker has noticed that sportswriters hardly ever gush anymore, but the problem has to do with all the grim details in the piece. The cranky voices of lawyers and agents are growing as familiar as Vin Scully's. They argue over dreary words. This time arbitration, last time compensation. When do they get to calcification...