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...Best Picture nominees! "Gladiator" (receives 12 nominations, more than any film this year)," "Traffic" (directed by Steven Soderbergh), "Erin Brockovich" (directed by Steven Soderbergh, who just made history by becoming the first director to garner two Best Director nominations and two Best Picture nods in the same year), "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (Also up for Best Foreign Film; just hoping its director, Ang Lee, hasn't learned to make acceptance speeches from Robert Benigni), "Chocolat" (the most controversial nomination; Miramax has been accused of buying a nod for a film that most critics considered a sugary nothing; the film...
...comedy in which the Kitano gruff guy serves as a young boy's nanny, he has returned to the crime genre with Brother. Shot in Tokyo and Los Angeles, this is a hyper-violent action movie with the standard fish-out-of-water plot?only this fish is a tiger shark. A yakuza lieutenant comes to L.A. to help his half-brother, a low-level thug. Aniki, as everyone calls Kitano (Japanese for brother), has nerve, entrepreneurial skills and a lot of spare bullets. Before long, half of the L.A. underworld has eaten his lead and the other half wants...
Pete Sampras played a U.S. Open tennis match while vomiting. Willis Reed limped to an NBA championship on a withered ankle. By comparison, TIGER WOODS, whose sport requires leisurely walking and the occasional poke at an inanimate ball, just had a little knee ouchy. But with a horde of cameras following him, Woods' triumph over minor injury was quickly elevated to the stuff of Olympic tearjerkers. Leaving the 18th green at Pebble Beach, Calif., after practice last Wednesday, Woods accidentally stepped on the ankle of a voracious autograph seeker, spraining his left knee. With the eager fan screaming...
...noon the day my flowers arrived, my room was awash in color. Unfortunately, the color of a $49 bouquet of tiger lilies from Flowerbud.com which had arrived by FedEx early that morning, was predominantly green because the lilies hadn't begun to open. "It doesn't feel like getting flowers," remarked a co-worker. "It's more like getting grass." The $62 multicolored tulips hand-delivered from 1-800-Flowers.com were brighter but a little ragged and carelessly arranged. I immediately tossed one droopy stem, and by the next day there were more brown petals...
GREAT BRAWL OF CHINA CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON SONY PICTURES CLASSICS The bid for grass-roots buzz resulted in screenings for the Wu-Tang Clan and various players for the Yankees and Jets, plus a successful push to nab Entertainment Weekly's coveted Oscar-preview cover...