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...pilots they advertised even if my job didn't require me to. "24" is nothing if not audacious. First for casting Kiefer Sutherland. Second, for aiming to tell a single 24-hour story, in real time, over the course of a season. Government agent Sutherland discovers a plot to assassinate a presidential candidate (who may be on the verge of becoming the first black president) and has a day to stop it. Especially impressive were the "Time Code"-like multiple-screen effects, assuming that wasn't just manufactured for the upfront, and assuming I can make...
...first two pages of the huge catalog to "Made in California" tell you the essential plot line. On the left, a detail from a tourist poster, ca. 1930, showing two women chatting under a palm on a crag, with a luxuriant view of golden mountainside behind them: California as Promised Land, an earthly paradise, Eden without the snake. On the right, a photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least...
...According to diplomats and military sources, one faction wanted Estrada restored to the presidency. (He is now under arrest at a military base 50 km outside Manila on charges of plundering the state coffers.) Another group wanted to forget Estrada and install its own military-civilian junta. If the plot succeeded, says Justice Secretary Hernani Perez, the rebels probably would have killed Estrada and Arroyo. Another mistake the plotters made was using the tried-and-true methods of bribing top men in uniform. Says one Western diplomat: "If the instigators had appealed to the mid-ranking officers, the idealists...
...anyone can bring pizazz to this decrepit genre, it's Baz Luhrmann--the mad Aussie who, in his 1996 Romeo + Juliet made Shakespeare play like a psychedelic rap video. The idea here was to take a plot that crosses 42nd Street with Camille and, he says, "steal bits of culture from the 20th century and use it to make a code, a software, to access emotion and character...
...sequel, Rush Hour 2. Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan team up again as the odd-couple, culture-clashing detective duo to do battle against some form of evil, but this time Tucker's the fish out of water as the action shifts from L.A. to Hong Kong. Plot details are sketchy, but immaterial as the pair attempts to uncover a conspiracy involving the Triad organized crime syndicate. Trailers show Chan's self-choreographed, playfully frenetic fight scenes will provide eye candy, aided by the gorgeous and acrobatic Zhang Ziyi (last seen in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). The other half...