Word: wooing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...back in Hollywood, with a meaty role opposite the movies' biggest box-office star in this season's surefire action thriller. Make that romantic thriller, because from the minute Newton and Cruise lock eyes across a floor of flamenco dancers in M:I-2, you know that director John Woo (Face/Off) is up to something different...
...MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 Directed by John Woo Starring Tom Cruise, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames...
...After failing to turn Eyes Wide Shut into an art-house blockbuster, Tom Cruise has returned to safer ground, teaming with much-worshipped action director John Woo for a high-octane sequel to his 1996 smash Mission: Impossible. Although it might seem as if Cruise is abandoning his lofty artistic ambitions in favor of instant box office, he actually continues his admirable tradition of seeking out the industry's top directors. Woo is an absolute master at bringing a graceful touch to epic action sequences, and much of his Hong Kong work, such as The Killer and Bullet...
...hunky high-school quarterback in Varsity Blues, the rest of the God-fearing world has been anxiously awaiting his next big-screen performance. Substituting football pants for equally tight leather chaps, this time Van Der Beek serves under one legendary cowboy, Leander McNelly (Dylan McDermott) and must woo Joey Potter and simultaneously battle an army of renegade outlaws, namely John King Fisher (Alfred Molina) and Pacey Witter. The hype is good for this gun toting, rough riding drama set in Texas, 1875, the one setback being it threatens to diminish the number of syllables Dawson can intelligently...
CALLING ALL CRANES The relationship between Japan and cranes has been a strained one. World War II disturbed their natural habitats, and the subsequent decline of the country's wetlands kept the birds away. But now a group on the island of Shikoku aims to woo them back. The Kanonji Society to Call Back the Cranes is promoting cleanup efforts and raising money to preserve crane habitats. The group also plans to broadcast crane sounds at volumes loud enough to attract any of the birds flying overhead...