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Screenwriters Ann Biderman and David Madsen are copycats too, primarily of Thomas Harris' terrific novels Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs. Copycat is also faithful to other melodramatic conventions. The sympathetic gay friend will be killed. The brilliant schemer will go implausibly stupid at the climax. And the filmmakers will forget what Harris knows: that there is great horror and pathos inside these creatures. A sick mind is a terrible thing to waste...
...windy fatuities. James Fox is competent as Astrov, and at times genuinely moving, but here too we hunger for something larger. Astrov is a feckless visionary obsessed with the future; in Fox's controlled performance we miss the simultaneous brightness and vacancy of eye that belong to the incurable schemer and dreamer...
Charles dithered his way through a lengthy list of girls, some suitable, some not. But Camilla Parker-Bowles, one that got away early and married another, has remained his very dear friend -- and Diana's nemesis. In Morton's book she is depicted as a schemer, vetting the prince's girls, not for their potential as royals but "to see how much a threat they posed to her own relationship." When the naive Diana said she didn't enjoy hunting, Camilla, a horsewoman, brightened at once. Then there was the discovery of Fred and Gladys -- the pet code names...
...Campbell's book Diana is the schemer and Charles the hapless one: "She knew he wasn't a scrap interested in her, but she also saw that he was vulnerable." Diana got herself invited to royal occasions by making friends with Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, Princess Margaret's daughter. Whatever the reality was, Diana expected that when they were married, her husband would devote a great deal of time to her. She was cruelly disappointed. Charles was chilly, his routine masculine and inflexible...
...friends that Ross didn't like his independence of mind. Others say the troubles stemmed largely from personality clashes between the ostensibly equal chieftains. "There are not two people more mismatched," says a top executive. In Ross, he maintains, "you have a dreamer and a visionary, a plunger and schemer"; in Nicholas "a guy who's small and risk averse. You could hardly get a yes out of him. He loved the status quo." While Ross is generally described as a charmer, Nicholas "is not a likable guy," says a director. Some executives and directors had the impression Nicholas...