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“Be Cool” star Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson dropped more than $1,600 on Valentino and Gucci shades in the Solstice Sunglass Boutique on Fifth Ave.
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Los Angeles — The Rock is a macho icon. So when he puts on a tight satin cowboy outfit and sings “You Ain’t Woman Enough (to Take My Man),” word gets around.That performance — the Rock plays a gay bodyguard in the action comedy “Be Cool” — caught the attention of Damon Romine of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation media watchdog group (more…)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.’s “Be Cool,” a sequel to the 1995 comedy “Get
Shorty,” fell to sixth from third with $5.8 million, Exhibitor Relations said.
In “Be Cool,” former loan shark Chili Palmer, played by John Travolta, gets
into the music business. The film co-stars Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn and Dwayne
Johnson, also known as “The Rock.”
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“Get Shorty” was one of the sharpest, coolest films of the 90’s, and “Be Cool” director F. Gary Gray matches it in style and poise . . . but there’s no clever meat to this one’s plastic bones, nor is there any of the pop and character polish that made “Shorty” such a moviegoer ‘get.’ Throw in a phoned-in performance by John Travolta (in a reprise of the role that cemented his comeback), and fans of the original can wait for DVD or cable, in my opinion. Pete sez . . . “Be Cool” really isn’t, and I’m not sure it could’ve been, even with somebody else at the helm (more…)

Vin Diesel’s latest vehicle claimed first place at the box office this weekend as ‘The Pacifier’ beat industry estimates by a strong margin to take a projected $30.2 million this weekend. The movie has positioned itself to easily overcome its cost when future domestic and international earnings are taken into account. (more…)