NEWS LITE : RED CARPET WAS ROLLED OUT FOR SPIELBERG SPY THRILLER.Summer in the Slovak capital of Bratislava, was less sleepy than usual this year, and a good deal more profitable - thanks to Steven Spielberg Noun 1. Steven Spielberg - United States filmmaker (born in 1947) Spielberg . Spielberg's DreamWorks chose Bratislava and a former Soviet military base nearby as locations for its first movie, ``The Peacemaker,'' a thriller starring George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (May 6, 1961) is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter who gained fame as the lead doctor in the long-running television drama, ER and Nicole Kidman centered on the theft of Russian nuclear material. Car chases, bombings and other thrills enlivened en·liv·en tr.v. en·liv·ened, en·liv·en·ing, en·liv·ens To make lively or spirited; animate. en·liv  en·er n. a city that knew such phenomenon only from the post-Communist criminal underworld. Parts of the Old Town were made over to look like Vienna, where Clooney and Kidman track down Russian informers. A Communist-era industrial complex housed a ``Pentagon war room.'' Living and filming in Bratislava, an old Austro-Hungarian city, cost a fraction of what Vienna would. Streets could be closed at will. Yet the more cosmopolitan Austrian capital is just an hour's drive away - Vienna's best informed gossip column gossip column n → ecos mpl de sociedad gossip column gossip n (Press) → échos mpl gossip column gossip n said Kidman and husband Tom Cruise dropped $15,000 in a city boutique in one visit. As a cheap location for Hollywood, Slovakia so far has taken a back seat to the Czech Republic and its stunning capital of Prague, where Cruise filmed parts of ``Mission: Impossible.'' Death ray dodged, he yearns for stage Bill Pullman got himself a big part in the blockbuster ``Independence Day,'' but he's yearning for smaller things. Pullman plays a U.S. president who narrowly escapes the White House before it's blown to bits by aliens, but the former Montana State University Montana State University, at Bozeman; land-grant; coeducational; chartered 1893. It is primarily a technical institution specializing in agriculture, engineering, and applied sciences. The Museum of the Rockies is there. drama teacher misses the stage. ``Oh, man, I'm so jealous of them,'' he said of theater actors. ``To be able to stand in a black box in a room with your lunch and a text seems like a dream to me now. It's so wonderfully clean and precise.'' Heavyweight likens the brain to brawn brawn n. 1. Solid and well-developed muscles, especially of the arms and legs. 2. Muscular strength and power. 3. Chiefly British The meat of a boar. 4. Headcheese. High-school dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human Mike Tyson is telling kids to stay in school. The brawny brawn·y adj. 1. Strong and muscular. 2. Hardened; calloused. heavyweight boxing champion told a group of Erlander, Ky., kids living in children's homes to exercise their brains with school work and reading. ``The same thing that makes the muscles in your arm strong is what makes your brains strong,'' he said Friday while flexing a muscle. The visit was part of Tyson's community service work required for his parole in the rape of a Miss Black America
The Miss Black America pageant is a competition for young Black American women in areas such as speech, talent, style, and poise — essentially the black version of the popular Miss pageant contestant. Three years in prison made him re-evaluate his priorities and shift God and his Muslim faith to the top of the list, Tyson said. Lanky kid looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. another role besides lil' Gump The boy who played the scrawny, slow-talking young Forrest Gump is having trouble being himself. ``Even when I'm not running, people will say `Run, Forrest, run!' '' said Michael Humphreys, 11. ``They don't learn my name. They call me Forrest in my regular life,'' he said. Casting agents arrived in Memphis three years ago looking for a quirky kid to play in the movie starring Tom Hanks. They picked Humphreys, an 8-year-old from Independence, Miss. Still living in rural Mississippi, Michael hopes he'll get another shot at the movies, but the Southern drawl drawl v. drawled, drawl·ing, drawls v.intr. To speak with lengthened or drawn-out vowels. v.tr. that helped win him his first role is now working against him. ``They'd say `We really like him, but can he drop the accent?''' mother Carol Humphreys said. He took dialect lessons, but his mother wants him ``to stay himself and not change his natural accent. It's part of him.'' And he's still a star at home, getting autograph requests and repeats of some of the movie's memorable sayings, like ``Stupid is as stupid does.'' ``I like some of the attention, but not all of it,'' Michael said. ``It's a little too much sometimes.'' CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) Mike Tyson Stay in school (2) Celebrating ear ly Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth holds flowers she was given Saturday during a village celebration near the royal family's castle at Sandringham, Norfolk, in England. Today is her 96th birthday. Associated Press |
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