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...seized by terrorist rebels, taken to an Andean prison aerie and held for a $3 million ransom. His wife Alice (Ryan) finds that Peter's company will not pay for the services of Terry Thorne (Crowe), an expert negotiator; she must hope Terry takes the job pro bono. Even if he does, he'll have to juggle the demands of Alice, the guerrillas and his own bruised but open heart...
Culpepper can heave a football 80 yds., run a 40-yd. dash in a halfback-like 4.42 sec. and jump 36 in. from a standing start. Even more impressive, according to Tarkenton, the last great Vikings quarterback, is Culpepper's poise. "A QB can have skills and he can run, but he's got to be able to make plays," says Tarkenton. "What this young man does is make plays for his football team." As in Culpepper's first-ever start, when, realizing that the Chicago Bears were lying back and waiting for him to make passing mistakes, Culpepper tucked...
...even these irreverent squiggles, however, can diminish the real testament of the posters: the enduring stardom; the genre jumping; the directing, producing and acting credits that have built his brilliant career during his two decades in the movie business. Yet even by his mammoth standards for success, this has been Gibson's year of living large. While last summer's Revolutionary War epic The Patriot wasn't the blockbuster Sony hoped for, it grossed more than $100 million in the U.S., thanks to Gibson's drawing power. He also provided his marquee value and inimitably cocky voice to the role...
...Instead, he's looking for directing projects. He had been planning to direct Hamlet onstage with Robert Downey Jr. in Los Angeles before Downey was arrested on drug-related charges on Nov. 25. "He would knock your socks off," says Gibson, sounding sad and frustrated. "I don't think even he knows it. I hope he gets it together...
...doll wearing a kilt and waving a sword. "I think time makes one more aware of the light and shade in human behavior," he says. "Most people get better with time. The sad part is, you get old and ugly as you get better." Then he laughs, knowing that even with the aging, there's not much for him to be sad about...