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...winter months. At that same screening, you might also have noticed a conspicuous lack of substance in these preview slots. One, hyping an animated feature called Titan A.E. simply featured Matt Damon voicing over images of a futuristic Earth being attacked by vicious bug-like creatures ripped off from Starship Troopers. Another, for the aforementioned Anna and the King was no less grandiose, featuring sweeping scenes of tropical jungles, ornate palaces and royal processions. Unfortunately, like Titan, Anna was similarly vague in it's promises -- it looked damn gorgeous to be sure, but was scant in dealing out specific details...
...endless reel in my mind now. A big boat is sinking; a starship is rising; an ex-stand-up is drawing $1 million per potty joke; and the studio magpies are eyeballing the receipts over Monday-morning cappuccino...
Last week former Dynasty actress CATHERINE OXENBERG married Starship Troopers actor CASPER VAN DIEN...
Lucas started a quest in Hollywood for the magic of childhood. Sometimes that quest was successful. Without Luke Skywalker and Hans Solo, there would be no Indiana Jones. Sometimes it was not. Without stormtroopers there would have been no Starship Troopers. But successful or not, that mad attempt to find the stuff of childhood and put it in a bottle defined much of the movie scene for the past 20 years...
...standpoint, the film succeeds. To an audience that knows the TV program well, these are not actors playing roles - they are the characters. We don't see accomplished Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart successfully portraying a science fiction character; we see our old friend, Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise...