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Remember the fuss that bubbled up when it was suggested that the title character in the TV show Ellen might come out? The controversy eventually petered out, but the idea didn't. The script for the episode in which Ellen announces she's gay, sources tell TIME, landed on the Disney TV honchos' desks last week. If approved, it will probably air early in the May ratings sweeps. Accordingly, the show would be completely revamped next year. Rumor has it that star ELLEN DEGENERES is looking for a whole lot more money and her network is looking for a whole...
...there a 'Billy Bob' here?" If you listened real hard, you could even hear "Clueless" Cher Horowitz piping, "This is California, not Kentucky!" All the same, Southern-born filmmaker Billy Bob Thornton has cut himself a big slice of the Hollywood pie. "Sling Blade"--nominated for Thornton's script and for his own starring performance--was, for some, the biggest surprise in a nomination field full of offbeat choices...
Thornton unfortunately saddles his script with too many Autistic Saint cliches--he fixes dead lawn mowers in minutes, he out-Gumps Gump on the football field--but he steadily reveals an emotional core that feels honest and unforced...
...fans may be worried that she's missing out on conventional stardom, but Posey isn't. "I get a phone call, I get a script, I do the movie. That's where the fun is." And we'll have fun watching her bloom in indie films--if she can afford...
BOOKS . . . MONSTER: LIVING OFF THE BIG SCREEN: John Gregory Dunne is a journalist and novelist who, with his wife Joan Didion, another producer of stinging reportage and fiction, pays the family bills by writing movie scripts. One of those, the Robert Redford?Michelle Pfeiffer showcase, 'Up Close and Personal,' is the subject of Dunne?s new book (Random House; 203 pages; $21). Originally the film was to be based on a biography of Jessica Savitch, the television reporter who died with her boyfriend in 1983 when their car accidentally rolled into the Delaware Canal near Philadelphia. But the details...