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...current entry, Pineapple Express, is more of the blow-'em-up, slap-happy same. Forget its similarities to earlier summer fare. This is one of two action films this month with mammoth, John Woo-movie-like explosions in parody form; next week's Tropic Thunder is the other. It is also the second movie this week in which a major plot point is an older man's promise to meet with his student girlfriend's parents. (Cf. Elegy, a romantic drama that has nothing else in common with Pineapple Express.) Finally, it's the third picture this summer...
...since February. But funds are modestly capped at just over $460,000 per film. To get a sense of the competition facing industry entrants, one only needs to compare this level of financing to that of the Chinese-language film dominating the city's movie houses this season - John Woo's Chinese historical drama Red Cliff, which with its estimated $80 million budget is Asia's most expensive movie to date. The trend for increasingly expensive epics will eventually lose steam, of course. But nobody is sure that Hong Kong's film industry will be ready with a replacement when...
...past three weeks, and TWA reported that telephone inquiries about flights to European destinations had jumped 80% since last month. Says Merle Richman, a Pan Am spokesman: ''There is a feeling that we are breaching a psychological barrier.'' If so, winning the breach has cost plenty. In order to woo back nervous travelers concerned about Arab terrorism, Soviet radioactive fallout and the declining U.S. dollar, airlines were engaging in extraordinary gimmicks and severely cutting their prices and profit margins. In the forefront of the European scramble to recover American business is British Airways. BA has waged a $6 million promotion...
...Daschle and other Democrats involved in the quiet efforts to woo McCain recall that he was willing to listen to their pitch that he quit the G.O.P. in the spring of 2001 and become an independent. Most McCain loyalists insist now that he never seriously considered it. But they do concede that Ted Kennedy discussed the idea with McCain on more than one occasion. Mark Salter, McCain's closest aide, joined the Senator on that first visit to Kennedy's office and waited outside. "Teddy was just talking to me about switching parties," McCain told Salter when it was over...
...your life experiences affect the way you make movies? Deanna Woo, Riverside, Ca. I was raised in a slum. Almost every day, I had to deal with gangs. I always got beat up and I had to fight very hard to survive. At that time, I felt like I was living in hell. Whenever I got hurt, or was feeling sad, I liked to go to church. The church gave me a lot of comfort, which is why I became a Christian. I put that experience into my movies. You can see it in A Better Tomorrow or The Killer...