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RECOVERING. HARRY REID, 65, Senate minority leader; from a brief ministroke that did not require hospitalization; in Searchlight, in his home state of Nevada...
...busy, triumphant night for Harold Ezell. Outfitted in a blue blazer and striped tie, the Government's most ardent alien chaser jumped into a helicopter and rode along as it sent a piercing searchlight across the hills and arroyos south of San Diego. Then he scrambled into a pickup truck and peered through a nightscope to watch his agents tear through the chaparral in Dodge Ram Charger "war wagons" to overtake groups of Mexicans trying to sneak into the U.S. Later, he proudly counted the day's total arrests: 2,643 illegal immigrants. Nudging a companion, Ezell declared...
...cottage outfit like MTV Films be a relevant business model for a major studio? In some ways, it already is. MTV Films has been hot of late, co-releasing with Fox Searchlight Pictures cult fave Napoleon Dynamite (made for a minuscule $400,000 and earning 100 times that at the domestic box office) and backing a mainstream hit in Coach Carter ($63 million gross). MTV Films' kid sister, Nickelodeon Films, had an $85 million hit with The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Comedy Central is another cool brand, though its Team America: World Police belly-flopped last year. Paramount has already made...
Russell Crowe's films tend to be more fun for the moviegoer than the moviemaker. And Eucalyptus, the star's latest project, appears to be another moviemaker's headache. Fox Searchlight Pictures called off production just three days before Crowe and fellow Aussie Nicole Kidman were set to start filming. Citing a collective concern over the script's readiness, the studio dismissed reports that Crowe alone forced the delay, closing the tiny window when both stars were available. The movie always faced steep challenges--a modest budget, huge stars, and the challenge of pronouncing eucalyptus-tree names such as Kakadu...
Reid's position on abortion is both honorable and clever. These are formidable qualities in a legislative minority leader. The willingness--and toughness--to read aloud, in public, long, long passages about life in Searchlight won't hurt, either...