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...children, and has recently lived through the suicide of his good friend, INXS singer Michael Hutchence. When Bono writes about the pain and suffering in the world, he is not a distant artist, speculating at what is out there. He has been in the trenches, and has seen the horror firsthand...
...Pulitzer Prize and Tony award for That Championship Season, of a heart attack; in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The play is based on Miller's experiences on his high-school basketball team, but he is perhaps best remembered for his Oscar-nominated performance as Father Damien Karras in the classic 1973 horror film The Exorcist. DIED. BRUNO CAVALIERI DUCATI, 96, architect, author, and last surviving founder of the motorcycle company that bears his name; in Ispra, Italy. DIED. PERRY COMO,88, causal crooner whose career in show business spanned six decades; in Jupiter, Florida. (See Eulogy) DIED. R.K. NARAYAN, 94, prolific novelist...
...else's schedule." The big question: Is she a star or merely a jettisoned planet in search of a new solar system? The answer may be found in two summer movies. The Others, coming from Miramax's Dimension Films in August, could turn out to be the season's horror sleeper. But first comes a far more out-there project, Moulin Rouge. When it starts hitting U.S. theaters May 18, the musical will probably have both critics and audiences debating whether it is art or just arty, and who knows if it can compete with the summer blockbuster bullies. This...
...movie is the fourth feature by French writer and director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whose previous project was Alien: Resurrection. That 1997 sci-fi horror film established Jeunet in international cinema's big-time, but two years in Hollywood left him longing for the charms of Paris. Back home in Montmartre, Jeunet began planning a film that would reflect Paris in his uniquely colorful and contorted visual style and recapture the dream-like atmosphere of his 1991 black comedy Delicatessen. The intent of Amélie, Jeunet says, was to make audiences feel happy-a goal he has clearly fulfilled...
...discovered politics is crime writ large," says the man who writes off J.F.K.'s assassination as "a business- dispute killing." And he found a new bete noire on the national stage: J. Edgar Hoover, the shadowy FBI director with a basketful of hatreds. "It was the horror of the abuse of power by Hoover and the fact that he went after Martin Luther King--and that King was the one guy he couldn't break--that's what interested me," says Ellroy. In high school Ellroy deliberately shocked others with pro-Hitler views, but he now professes great admiration...