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...rigors of filming in remote locations, but few have faced half the hardships inflicted on the cast of Platoon. Fresh from the fleshpots of New York and Los Angeles, the film's young stars found themselves deep in the Philippine jungle, which stood in nicely for Viet Nam. Clad in sweat-stained fatigues and stooped beneath 60-lb. backpacks and rifles, they marched day and night through leech-infested streams and swarms of insects...
Stratton is a beautiful-people-only resort. The new village, with the requisite quaint architecture and gourmet shop also boasts clothes boutiques from Bogner and CB sports. It has a certain European flavor; one almost expects fur-clad women to stroll by with their poodles...
...most banks, a customer clad in nothing but a string bikini would draw stares and possibly disrupt business. But at Brazil's BancoMovel (mobile bank), many of the best-dressed people wear mostly suntan lotion. Housed in small red 9-ft. by 5-ft. trailers, two of these automated tellers-on-wheels are stationed in or around beach resorts near Rio and Sao Paulo, providing cash around the clock to customers who may leave home without their clothes but never without their electronic banking cards...
...film opens up in the remote, blizzard-wracked regions of the Himalayas, with a strange Tibetan ceremony that involves offerings to a child (J.L. Reate) who has magical, healing powers. Shortly, an evil, darkly-clad figure (Charles Dance) invades the temple and, with the help of his marauders, kidnaps the youngster. Cut to Los Angeles, where Chandler Jarrell (Murphy) is a finder of lost children. He is, according to ancient scrolls, the "Chosen One," destined to rescue the boy. Persuaded by Kee Nang (Charlotte Lewis), a beautiful Tibetan, Jarrell takes on this unusual case. The rest of the plot...
...there is far more than humor in this collection. The Fishermen of the Seine evokes, in a style as spare as Maupassant or Simenon, the ponts and iles of Paris at dawn, when rough-clad men hunker in the fog to hook Gallic mysteries like goujon, breme and chevaine. Two hunting pieces extracted from Humphrey's poignant 1977 memoir Farther Off from Heaven call back the hot dust and snaky swamps of his Depression-era boyhood in east Texas, along with the ghost of his hard-drinking, bar-fighting, trick-shot artist of a father...