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...dollars can't buy According to Jim: an original voice. Home Movies--a sweet, off-kilter comedy about neurotic eight-year-old film buffs, their dysfunctional families and their alcoholic soccer coach--relies heavily on improvisation to create true-to-life dialogue; executive producer Loren Bouchard recalls how voice actress Melissa Bardin Galsky came up with an off-the-cuff line about how her character's pencil eraser smelled like strawberries. "Most of us," Bouchard says, "don't remember when we had erasers that came in food flavors...
...tell. It's a big secret I used to do drugs." COURTNEY LOVE, musician-actress, before entering court, where she pleaded not guilty to felony drug charges...
...there," says Maruyama. "Perfect Blue was the first animated film that could honestly be called a full-fledged movie." Critics agreed; Perfect Blue garnered a handful of international awards, including the prize for Best Asian Film at Montreal's Fant-Asia Film Festival. And Kon's follow-up, Millennium Actress, a lyrical life story of a fictional movie star, so impressed U.S.-based DreamWorks that it bought the North American distribution rights and released it in theaters this fall. Says Ann Daly, head of DreamWorks' feature animation division: "When we showed Millennium Actress to our animation team, they were enthralled...
...wider audience and raising the standards of prime-time TV in the process. "We're going to let him keep doing what he wants, and I think the audiences will eventually come to him," says Mad House president Maruyama. That may finally be about to happen. Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers made the release-date cutoff for this season's Oscars, and industry insiders are whispering that both films might be top contenders. That would bring Kon much deserved recognition and show that his brand of animation has a destiny beyond entertaining children. And Kon would never again have...
...they’re performing. Noises Off’s offstage world runs like a fast-paced sex comedy: the leading actor has just been abandoned by his wife, another cast member is convinced that his girlfriend is cheating on him, and the director is sleeping with both an actress and the stage manager. Nothing On, the play performed in Noises Off, is just as farcical, involving a pair of tax agents who sneak into the unoccupied home of a client for a sexual rendezvous only to run into the housekeeper and the house’s owners, who have...