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`The Mummy

Mummy: 1. a dead body preserved by embalming,
as by the ancient Egyptians; 2. [Chiefly British]
child's term for 'mother'.

The film is based on the 1932 clas-
sic starring Boris Karloff, although this
version aims to have more of a Raiders
of the Lost Ark or Gunga Din flavor.
K, so Sunday is Mother's
"I thought the script was perfect —
Day, but it's highly unlikely
a romantic adventure story, says
that Universal Pictures tied
Weisz, whose previous films include I
the release of its new sci-fi
Want You, Swept From the Sea, Going
epic, The Mummy — about an expedi-
tion of treasure-seeking explorers in the All the Way, Chain Reaction, The Land
Girls and Stealing Beauty.
Sahara Desert in 1925 who stumble
"Evelyn is very intellectual and has
upon an ancient tomb and unwittingly
always
dreamt of going on an archeo-
set loose a 3,000-year-old legacy of ter-
logical dig, but I think
ror — to the affectionate
she
suffers because she's
term used by Brits to
Above and opposite page:
a
woman,"
says Weisz.
address their maternal
IT'S "MUMMY'S" DAY
"There were some
parent, even if one of the
Rick O'Connell (Brendan
female archeologists in
film's stars is English
Fraser) must save Evelyn
the '20s, but it was dif-
(Rachel Weisz) and the rest
actress Rachel Weisz.
ficult for them to have
of the world from a 3,000-
Weisz takes the role
lives outside of the
year-old
curse.
of beautiful but clumsy
museum.
Egyptologist Evelyn,
Speaking
of
suffering,
Weisz was
who, with legionnaire Rick O'Connell
called
on
to
endure
some
of the most
George
of
the
Jungle,
(Brendan Fraser,
horrific scenes in the movie. "I was
Gods and Monsters) and her brother
manacled to an altar with live rats
Jonathan (John Hannah, Sliding
clamoring all over my body for a
Doors, Four Weddings and a Funeral),
whole week," she recalls. "In another
leave Cairo for a journey that takes
scene I had 4-inch-long live locusts
them down the Nile and across the
poured all over my head and entan-
Sahara to an encounter with a malevo-
gled in my hair."
lent force whose power is manifested
Still, modern technology and com-
in corporeal form as the Mummy.
puter-generated special effects were
Philip Berk, a four-time president of
used for many of the sequences. "It
the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,
certainly improved my imagination
is a freelance writer based in California.
because [director] Stephen [Sommers]

PHILIP BERK

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