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...middle of a Louisiana cornfield? Patience, all will be explained. Actress Lisa Bonet is best known as the spunky, spaniel-eyed daughter Denise on The Cosby Show. But this summer Bonet, 18, wanted a change of image. So she made Angel Heart, with Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro. In the movie, due for release next March, she plays a bayou-country fieldworker who has an infant son -- and incidentally is a voodoo priestess. "Not a conventional teenager," allows Bonet, who drew on her Creole roots. "I had to do a lot of self- exploration." Bonet was not moved...
...three pictures were contenders for the grand prize, and Tarkovsky, a Soviet emigre who lay ill with cancer in a Paris hospital, was the emotional favorite. But the jury was moved by different emotions. The Mission is a $23 million epic, starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons, made by a powerful producer (David Puttnam of Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields) and financed by a company (Goldcrest) on the brink of bankruptcy. Set in 18th century Peru, it is a parable of 20th century liberation theology, of religious imperialists (the noble Jesuits) vs. economic imperialists (the venal Spanish...
...Public Theater, stage veterans gaped at the good fortune of Playwright Reinaldo Povod, 26. A product of Manhattan's turbulent Lower East Side, Povod had never before even written a full-length play. Envy turned to astonishment when Papp announced the show would star Oscar Winner Robert De Niro in his first stage effort since 1970's One Night Stands of a Noisy Passenger. The seven-week off-Broadway run sold out in three hours. After Cuba began previews last month, the Public started selling tickets to overflow crowds to watch the play on closed-circuit...
...title refers not to Castro's island but to an illiterate Hispanic drug dealer (De Niro) and his much cuddled, much cuffed adolescent son Teddy (Ralph Macchio, star of the movie The Karate Kid). Also on the scene are the father's oafish partner in crime (Burt Young, an Oscar nominee for Rocky) and assorted street-corner toughs, including a junkie playwright who has befriended and apparently seduced the boy, a would-be writer. For De Niro fans, the role of Cuba evokes what he does best in film: veering unnervingly between caressing affection and blind rage. Small wonder that...
Twenty years ago we had The Graduate in which a confused young man has an affair with the mother of the woman with whom he eventually elopes. Just two years ago we had Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep in Falling in Love which turned The Scarlet Letter on its head and told us that adultery is a-okay...