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Despite the G-rated romance, the couple's off-screen chemistry permeates their scenes together. Their occasional onscreen arguments, particularly when Nicole's character antagonizes Tom's are especially humorous...
...delirious Orson Welles movie now spiffed up for its first U.S. engagement in 36 years -- shows Welles in blackface, upside down and dead. Even when he was a young man, a 25-year-old making something called Citizen Kane, the legendary actor-auteur enjoyed imagining himself as a corpse onscreen. It was his impudent prophecy: that he would soon be cast on Hollywood's funeral pyre like a discarded sled...
...clear, and the movie easily led the box-office sweepstakes in its first weekend with a $15 million take. But more protests were planned for the Oscar ceremony. Activists have successfully forced their concerns about gay images in the movies out into the open. They argue that all the onscreen mayhem is inciting real-life violence against members of their community. A five-city survey conducted by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute reports a 31% increase in gay-bashing incidents last year, including a jump in the number of anti-gay murders to eight, from three...
...Strickland, a documentary filmmaker who had been hired by Hylan's company, in a typically dopey corporate move, to record the millionaire at sea, and who has now inherited Owen Browne as a subject instead. Strickland's modest fame rests on his ability to make people look ridiculous onscreen, and he is, by and large, willing to jettison Hylan and try out his technique on the photogenic and seemingly unassailable Brownes. Looking at some still photographs of the couple, Strickland's assistant remarks that Owen and Anne "don't resemble our usual run of scumbag." Strickland replies, "Trust...
Members of Scharf's family believe they spotted him in an East German film of American POWs made during the war. A figure who appears onscreen for perhaps one second has what they say is Scharf's characteristic waddling walk. Lowerison also has a paper, found in her brother's service records, that she has been told is a "CIA report." It lists her brother as one of 12 POWs identified by the agency in the same film...