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Romantic comedies tend to have much smaller profit margins. Last year's Meg Ryan vehicle, Kate & Leopold, cost about $50 million and made just about that domestically. Sweet Home Alabama is a fairly safe bet, but the comparably priced baseball drama The Rookie was a much safer one for the same studio, since it appealed to a broader demographic. Box-office results show that boys resolutely avoid chick flicks. "If you have a female lead in a movie," says Oren Aviv, marketing president for Buena Vista Pictures, "only females are going to go. And you better have a star that...
These days, Massey said, when people think of electricity deregulation, they tend to think of the recent crisis in California. But he argued that the problem stemmed from a poorly designed market—not from deregulation itself...
...time Oscar nominee, Lithgow has won four Emmys, three for his starring role in the recent series “Third Rock From the Sun.” His recent films include Orange County (2002) and Shrek (2001). Well, I’m an actor and actors tend to learn a little bit about a lot of things but not a lot about anything. In an oddball career, I have played a butcher, a rugby player, a nuclear physicist, a boxer, and loads of other parts. So I can tell you a little bit about making sausages, playing rugby, building...
...down a M-24 Hind helicopter gunship, and inflicted quite a few casualties on the Russians. The numbers are rising, and although Russia early on claimed to have lost 10 men and killed 30 Chechen fighters, our experience in covering this conflict suggests that the claims of each side tend to double enemy casualties and halve their own. So, it's a major battle...
...tend to admit people who were used to leading things,” he says...