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...Long Kiss Goodnight satisfy the dramatic unities while kicking beaucoup butt. And sometimes a gifted director can go beyond the conventional pleasures. With Face/Off, John Woo, the Hong Kong auteur (The Killer, Hard Boiled), has made his smartest, wildest, positively Woo-siest American thriller. Working from a vigorous script by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary, Woo weaves his familiar touches--the slo-mo, the gleaming candles, the long coats flying in the breeze, the doves flying in a chapel as an omen of death--around the central fantasy of male bonding gone berserk...
Amid its shortcomings, the script of "Showboat" does have its moments. A particularly witty scene--in fact, the funniest in the entire show--presents a satirical parody of "showboat" theater, the kind of absurd melodrama that makes the framing drama look great in comparison, and reaches its pinnacle of hilarity with Cap'n Andy's spirited one-man enactment of the denouement and the wonderful punchline: "Curtain! No refunds." And the irresistible swing of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" will have you humming or whistling it before you exit the theater. No wonder that song, along with...
...both senses of the word. The visual style, inspired by the pointy illustrations of Gerald Scarfe (who served as production designer), challenges the eye: blink, and you'll miss the sign in the sky indicating that Marilyn Monroe isn't just a star, she's a whole constellation. The script by Musker, Clements, Bob Shaw, Donald McEnery and Irene Mecchi is rife with Oedipus riffs, Achilles spiels, Zeus zingers and roman-numeral jokes--"Somebody call IX-I-I." The Greeks had a word for it: shtick...
...sometimes it can be a big drag. Like now. A Michigan plastics-factory manager, Lawrence Booker, claiming to be the father of Pfeiffer's adopted daughter Claudia Rose, has filed suit for $75,000, and he asserts that Pfeiffer and husband DAVID E. KELLEY lifted portions of his script Barrio Kids for the film Dangerous Minds. Bunch of hooey, says Pfeiffer's publicist. The adoption was closed, so Pfeiffer doesn't know who the biological parents are and they don't know who got their child. At the time the script was allegedly delivered, Minds was already...
Basically, Don thought stuff up, Jerry worked things out. "Don attended script meetings," says Tom Cruise, "but he wasn't on the set a lot. Jerry was always there when you wanted to get it done." B. stood by S. during the drug problems, but relations tensed. In 1995, after a doctor-screenwriter, ostensibly treating Simpson for substance abuse, died of an overdose in the producer's pool house, the partners agreed to divide the projects they had in the works...