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...Seattle, and in the new box-office favorite French Kiss, she is also the current soul of romantic comedy. And what you see on screen is what you get on the set. "She's adorable, huggable, smart, funny and strong," says French Kiss director Lawrence Kasdan, listing the five Comic Heroine virtues as if they had been minted for Ryan. "Men want to be married to her, and women want to be her friends.'' Says Nora Ephron, who wrote When Harry Met Sally and directed Sleepless in Seattle: "Women somehow don't mind if their boyfriends like Meg, because they...
Best Scene Stealer: Armand Assante in Judge Dredd. Sylvester Stallone is the star, but Assante oozes suave comic menace as a villain who seemingly can't be killed. Hey, Mr. Mean, we thought you were dead. "I got betta," he explains...
Rule No. 1: Remake what worked before. So The Flintstones (live-action cartoon) begets Casper; The Crow (movie version of a comic book-sorry, graphic novel) sires Judge Dredd; the Ninja Turtles frenzy of recent yore gives way to Morphin endorphins. Four Hollywood pictures last year (the megahit True Lies, as well as the less successful Intersection, Mixed Nuts and My Father, the Hero) were based on French films; so is Nine Months, a comedy about an expectant couple (Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore). The high grosses of three Michael Crichton novels-into-films in two years (Jurassic Park, Rising...
Novelists have not always been kind to runaway wives-Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina, for example. But Tyler (whose novels include The Accidental Tourist and Morgan's Passing) again blesses her subject with a comic sensibility. The world of Ladder of Years is not one where acts produce serious moral consequences. Delia reads of her disappearance in the newspaper: "A slender, small-boned woman with curly fair or light-brown hair, Mrs. Grinstead stands 5'2" or possibly 5'5" and weighs either 90 or 110 pounds." Her understandable response: "For heaven's sake, hadn't anyone in her family...
DIED. SIR MICHAEL HORDERN, 83, British actor whose portrayals of tragic heroes on stage (Prospero in The Tempest) were counterpointed by comic supporting roles in movies (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum); in Oxford, England...