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...love, the producers, who sunk a reported €35 million into Bronzés 3, will expect to see a return on their investment. Director Leconte doesn't think they have cause for concern; previous Bronzés movies did well in cinemas and were absorbed into French pop culture after TV broadcasts and retail sales took them to wider audiences, winning new generations of admirers. The new movie should reach break-even point when the 8 millionth viewer parks in a seat at the movie house to watch the fun. But neither Leconte nor Jugnot expect foreign audiences...
DIED. WENDY WASSERSTEIN, 55, witty, bittersweet playwright; of lymphoma; in New York City. As one of five siblings in a brainy, high-achieving family, she looked at pop culture and asked, "Where are the girls?" In plays like Uncommon Women and Others and the Pulitzer-prizewinning The Heidi Chronicles, she provided the answer with textured portraits of smart, sometimes self-doubting feminists struggling in the wake of the 1960s with competing urges for independence and intimacy. It was familiar ground for the Tony winner who, resisting pleas from her parents, remained steadfastly single. She gave birth at 48 and chronicled...
...Alan Greenspan ended his 18-year reign as Federal Reserve Chairman last week, yque.com was primed to capitalize on the maestro's legacy--and bizarre pop-culture appeal
...bank robbers come barging into the bank manager's home, take everybody hostage and order Dad to pop the safe at the branch office. But there's a time lock on the vault, which can not be overridden. That permits everyone to hang around in the living room, getting to know one another while the miscreants eat all the Wheaties. Eventually, Dad proves to be not quite the doofus he seems to be, the plot is foiled, and bourgeois order is restored to 79 Wistful Vista Drive...
...American Idol in 2002. While "28 million" and "winner" are positives in the context of reality television, singing the swollen talent-show ballad A Moment Like This in a prom dress with mascara cascading down your face is not the kind of thing that endears you to cool-conscious pop-music fans. Just in case Clarkson's victory tableau didn't create enough skeptics about her chances for a successful recording career, she followed it up with From Justin to Kelly, a monstrous Idol movie musical that in the most generous light is the worst film so far this century...