Word: jacksonism
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...Obsessed with dangerous exploits that require extreme athleticism, Xander sells black-market films of himself performing such stunts as stealing the Corvette of a right-wing Senator, driving it off a cliff and parachuting to safety. He's recruited by a U.S. security official (a scar-faced Samuel L. Jackson) to save the world from an East European anarchist...
...Russ was also getting some serious critical attention. Yale University hosted a retrospective of his films. Richard Schickel attended the event and wrote a long Meyer appreciation for Life, then a weekly picture magazine. In France, critic Jean-Pierre Jackson reviewed "Common Law Cabin" and reverently called it "the most implausible film ever made." The Village Voice put its sassiest junior movie critic (me) on the Meyer beat, opening the sluice gate to torrents of mannered enthusiasm. I'd followed Meyer since around 1960, when I saw "Teas" at an "art" theater in Philadelphia, but I didn't strap...
...where I felt at all cool, I use the opportunity to approach five women in half shirts and low-slung jeans and buy them Absolut and Red Bulls. I ask Nicole Gaviria, 32, of the shortest half shirt and lowest jeans, why she came. "We thought it was Janet Jackson," she explains. "Basically, we were talking about doing something in South Beach besides getting drunk...
...couple of Camerons, Diaz (on a subway) and Crowe (on a bus), flit through Minority Report, directed by Steven Spielberg--who also shows up in Goldmember. Men in Black II enlists Michael Jackson and Martha Stewart--aha, they are aliens! In Mr. Deeds, Al Sharpton delivers a rappin' elegy and John McEnroe teaches Adam Sandler how to (mis)behave in New York City. Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal features bits by Brad Pitt and his Se7en director David Fincher...
...Jackson had declined director Barry Sonnenfeld's request to cameo in the first MIB. This time Jackson called Sonnenfeld. "He said he had found the first film very moving, and he stayed in the theater by himself and cried," says Sonnenfeld. "I tried to explain that I personally thought Men in Black was a comedy... but we just went past that...