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...rash of sloppy plastic surgery set to cheesy 70's music depends most immediately on the mental state of the viewer than anything else. For the careful viewer, then, the series best illustrates the potential for careful filmmakers to apply sex and violence as particularly powerful tools of cinema (most of the films won several awards), rather than gimmicks for the sake of controversy...
...this cautionary tale of blond ambition, Kidman concocts a savory cocktail of strychnine and syrup. Imagine a bourgeois sex kitten mistaken for a prom queen. Her eyes are fixed in a cutesy-predatory gaze that evokes and parodies the early Ann-Margret and her cinema avatars Melanie Griffith and Drew Barrymore. Her voice has the blithe assurance of someone who has never been told no. On her teeth is a little lipstick residue, like unlicked blood. She's got It, and she knows how to peddle it. In this small-town, pastel-pretty version of Network, Suzanne strides toward...
...REAL--OR RATHER, GET UNREAL. TO Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar is a movie [CINEMA, Sept. 18]. Remember what that means? Fantasy. Make-believe. Fairy tale. A genre that is not always designed to inspire moral judgments or politically conscious statements. It aims to entertain, which To Wong Foo does delightfully. What if the story line is predictable? Name a fairy-tale fantasy in which it isn't. What if three drag queens drive into a small, dreary heartland town and add style, brighten lives and create miracles? We believe because we want to think miracles can still...
...Turner Broadcasting board meeting, across town in the offices of the company's law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, was anything but calm. "It was full of drama," says Robert Shaye, chairman of New Line Cinema and a member of the board. "The kind of stuff," he adds, "that good boardroom TV movies are made of." At one point, Brian Roberts of Comcast Corp. and Timothy Neher of Continental Cablevision, both directors of Turner with stakes in the company, walked out of the talks because they felt they didn't have the leverage to get the same kind...
Throughout the history of American cinema, people who appear in movies seem to have been divided into two categories: actors and black actors. Actors--tacitly understood to mean white actors--played every sort of role in every kind of film, from action heroes to sex sirens, in horror films and period pieces. Black actors, on the other hand, were defined by their race and carefully circumscribed in the parts they could play--usually sidekicks, servants or criminals. Even the few black actors who broke into leading-man roles were confined in various ways. Sidney Poitier, the premier black star...