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...rangy 6-ft. 2-in. body--not quite comfortably, not quite uncomfortably, half odalisque, half scrappy point guard diving for the ball. Unlike most people's, his face is more handsome the less animated it is; unlike most movie stars, then, he is better looking in person than onscreen (in another movie era, he could have been a male ingenue, another Ronald Reagan). Put him in front of a camera, though, and his engine starts to hum. During a photo session, his publicist takes him aside and asks him to resist the urge to strike zany poses now that...
...skipped the fireworks so he could stare for five hours into his office computer as it downloaded Pathfinder's first images from the surface of Mars. Another Gore brainchild--he calls it "digital earth"--would allow students with computers to zoom in on any spot of an onscreen planet to learn everything they possibly want to know about...
CLAIRE DANES doesn't come of age the easy way. At least twice already she's died onscreen before reaching adulthood, and in her upcoming film Brokedown Palace, directed by Jonathan Kaplan, she suffers her share of tribulations. Danes plays Alice, a wild-hearted high school grad who lies to her parents and heads off to Bangkok with her pal (Kate Beckinsale) in tow. "She wants to see where she stands on the other side of the world," explains Danes, who just wrapped up filming in Manila. Alas, the outlook isn't good for Alice: she meets the kind...
...period costume, period extravagance, period class prejudice. An audience can enjoy these at a distance. Oddly, however, of all the period mores in the film, the old maritime tradition of "women and children first" enjoys total acceptance by modern audiences. Listen to the booing and hissing at the onscreen heavies who try to sneak on with--or ahead of--the ladies...
Sally herself, played by Natasha Richardson, is older, more wasted, less the perky-quirky charmer played by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 movie. Richardson (The Handmaid's Tale onscreen; Anna Christie onstage; Vanessa Redgrave's daughter in real life) doesn't belt out the Kander and Ebb numbers a la Liza; she acts them. The climactic title song, most startlingly, is no longer a triumphant anthem. Richardson clutches the microphone and grits through the lyrics ("Start by admitting/ From cradle to tomb/ Isn't that long a stay"), shouting her defiance even as she struggles to keep from flying apart...