The noise you hear when the weather and the movies get hot--aside from the clatter of cash registers and the "Everything stinks" sighs of film critics--is the tumbling of actresses, as male stars push them aside and stride into big action films. Out of the way, ladies. Summer is men's work.
This summer too, nearly every weekend, another gonadal epic storms the box office. These live-action cartoon heroes--icons for the all important 14-to-14 1/2-year-old male demographic--come in many varieties: animal (Wolverine in X2), vegetable (the giant broccoli that is the Hulk) and mineral (Ahnold in T3). Every variety but female.
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