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Fortunately her work choreographing and dancing with talented classmates such as Michael Schumacher, Mark Haim, and Robert Garland, and her close relationship with teacher Hanya Holm, helped her learn how to make a place for herself in the world of dance...
...through Ruth's sordid life with coloratura bravura. "I love you," murmurs David Blakely (Rupert Everett), a spoiled, sodden rich boy with a passion for racing cars and a taste for tarts. "Everybody does," Ruth shrugs. "Why should you be different?" An older man, Desmond Cussen (Ian Holm), is Ruth's pal and protector, the one dour celibate in this tatty Sodom. Des is used to being used by Ruth; it is his way of feeling needed. He has the patience for her; David has the hots. Together, these qualities might make a decent lover. Opposed, they tear Ruth apart...
...them on her own terms. This sexy, witty film has the texture of a '50s B movie: these are small, doomed people viewed unsentimentally as they take their sport in cramped bedrooms or walk along soot-swathed streets with murder in their eyes. Though Richardson has the showstopper part, Holm is the class act here. With his finicky mustache and sad, knowing eyes, he poignantly deadpans Des' coaled passion for Ruth. Des alone knows what her obsession with David will lead to. Ever the decorous Englishman, he is powerless to stop...
MARRIED. Joan Collins, 52, sensuous TV actress (Dynasty); and Peter Holm, 38, a Swedish pop star turned businessman; she for the fourth time, he for the first; at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas...
...role, as does Willem Dafoe in a brief cameo as a tabloid editor. It was great to see Alan Alda back on the big screen with a fairly meaty role as a senator who is out to get Hughes. And if nothing else, The Aviator reiterates that having Ian Holm and Alec Baldwin on screen, if only briefly, is nearly always worthwhile. Unfortunately, Cate Blanchett’s portrayal of Katharine Hepburn doesn’t fare as well—within five seconds of her appearance she was grating on my nerves. If the real Hepburn was as annoying...