Word: heather
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie's premise prevents the directors (Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez) from playing many attention-grabbing cinematic tricks, so good acting is crucial here. Fortunately, all three principals give rounded, believable performances even while improvising much of the dialogue. Heather (Heather Donahue) plays the director and narrator of the documentary. Her drive keeps the project going, but her badgering of jockish, camera-toting Mike (Michael Williams) and easy-going sound engineer Josh (Joshua Leonard) causes tension. As things go awry, however, the power structure breaks down. Their relationships become more subtle and volatile as their fear wears on them...
...years: the powdered wig, the Mohawk, the ducktail--not proud moments. So we should probably not be surprised at the latest expression of men's vanity: tipping, in which guys bleach or dye just the tops of their short, spiky strands, leaving their roots long and exposed. Imagine Heather Locklear if her hair were attacked by a razor...
...farmhouse in Night of the Living Dead. Leathermask's rampage in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Add to the list: the final confession in The Blair Witch Project, in which a petrified young filmmaker delivers her last will and testament on video while awaiting imminent doom. Improvised by newcomer Heather Donahue, the spine-tingling scene is guaranteed to provide nightmares for years to come...
About 40% of the new film was improvised on the set, say several actors. Yet things weren't loosey-goosey for everyone. "It's not as lighthearted as it seems," says Heather Graham, who plays slinky CIA agent Felicity Shagwell. "They were pretty specific about the script. Mike would improvise and make up stuff, but if you forgot one word, they'd say, 'No, that's wrong.' It appears off the cuff, but it was kind of scientific and took hours to get right." Some over-the-top bits were chopped from the movie, many involving a grotesque adversary named...
...great frustrations of traveling with children--the unpredictability of it all--can also be its greatest pleasure. For instance, to protect the beige carpeting in a hotel room they stayed in a few years back, Heather Rosett and her husband Charles let their two young sons eat pizza in the bathtub; that desperate measure is now de rigueur on all their family trips. On a business trip to New York City, Candyce Stapen took her daughter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to see an exhibit of Impressionist paintings but wound up, at her daughter's insistence, counting the dogs...