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...little plagiarism mess. A New York Times reporter doing research on eunuchs (hey, they've got a lot of sections to fill now) discovered that one chapter in Chase-Riboud's Valide: A Novel of the Harem has seven instances--some as many as 600 words in length--lifted directly from a 1936 nonfiction work on harems. Chase-Riboud is continuing her $10 million lawsuit...
...hours, it all plays like the rough assembly of a 90-min. caper film--an anecdote told at epic length. Grier, foxy lady of '70s blaxploitation, is given little chance to radiate; you never even glimpse her magnificent shoulders. As for Tarantino, he is playing peekaboo with his sizable talent. Jackie Brown marks time, lots of it, between Pulp Fiction and his next great project...
...addition to the high jump, Gyorffy broke the school record in the triple jump by jumping a length...
Christofferson also said that the eight-hour length is not unusual for IOP elections. "It's not uncommon, they always take a long time," he said...
...shooting started in July 1996, Fox negotiated with Universal, with which it had very profitably split the cost of True Lies. Universal was tantalized but scared. The budget, pegged slightly in excess of $100 million, seemed unrealistic. And the film was projected to run about three hours. At that length, theaters could get only one solid screening a night, which could hurt profits...