Word: interviewing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech, and two days later he had emerged virtually unscathed from a one-hour grilling on NBC's Meet the Press. After being knocked for weeks as a lightweight who didn't understand foreign policy and could not field tough questions, he had handled the speech and the televised interview well enough to quiet some of his critics. Now the next hurdle, a debate this week in New Hampshire, seemed less daunting. "I'm feeling comfortable," Bush told his team as he sipped coffee. "I'm ready...
...rights, Neil Jordan's new film, The End of the Affair, should be dazzling. So many of the pieces are in place--first-rate actors, a great wartime love story, a seasoned director (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire). But the inconsistently inspired director falters here, and what should percolate into a fine cinematic brew instead comes out as a disappointingly sludgy ode to what might have been a great work...
...craggy, dark-haired director has been through hours of interviews already, but doesn't look it. Relaxed and slouching in a tweed coat, he looks at first glance more like an English professor than one of the foremost (and quirkiest) Irish directors working today. The rigors of a promotional tour aren't new to Jordan--he's weathered the gonzo publicity machines surrounding his more high-profile efforts, including 1992's The Crying Game, for which he won a best original screenplay Oscar, and Interview with the Vampire, which came out as the worldwide Brad Pitt craze was fast approaching...
...Despite his sometimes enormous success (Interview grossed over $110 million in the US alone), Jordan remains self-effacing about his work, an of course, his Oscar. "Nobody knows who got the Oscar for best script. It's the consolation prize, isn't it? It's the one, they should've given it best picture-'Oh, we'll give him best screenplay.' They remember best actor, don't they, and best picture, that's it. [pauses] They definitely don't remember screenplay...
...read our interview with Tim Holmes...