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Barbara Turner, JENNIFER JASON LEIGH'S mom, doesn't just knit her daughter sweaters. She also whips up screenplays. So when the actress proposed a script about a girl who can't sing (like Leigh) and her sister, who has a fabulous voice (as both of Leigh's do), Turner happily complied. Leigh stars in the resulting Georgia, which generated a buzz at Cannes but lacks an American distributor. The constantly risk-taking actress says she liked her tortured character for her ability "to be very naked and very out there." And hey-one Seattle scene was shot...
...Clean Water Act. Calling it the "Dirty Water Act," the President portrayed the legislation as the legislation of "the lawyers and lobbyists who represent the polluters." Bud Shuster (R-Pa.), the bill's primary sponsor, shot back: "It's pretty evident the president is reading off a script handed him by environmental extremists." At issue are provisions of theHouse bill that would ease pollution controls on industry, restrict wetlands protection,and give local officials more say in meeting water quality standards. The Senate version is expected to be more moderate...
...Julia Roberts flew to Haiti last week to act as unicef's goodwill ambassador to the newly democratic but still impoverished country. The actress visited orphanages, vaccination programs and schools. But while delighting the people of Haiti, she disappointed the folks at Disney by taking a pass on its script for the Pretty Woman sequel...
...release, the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children argues that the film lacks balance and is "dangerous in its potential for fueling unjustified skepticism about the judicial system and about child witnesses." Although apsac executive director Theresa Reid has not seen the film, she has read the script and cites as her main concern "the implication that fantastic elements in a child's account of abuse are evidence that the account is false." Prosecutor Rubin declined an invitation from Time to see a screening of the movie and comment...
...devised by writers Michael Schiffer and Richard P. Henrick (with a script polish by Quentin Tarantino), Crimson Tide is an old-fashioned mutiny movie -- on the U.S.S. Alabama instead of the Bounty or the Caine. Actually, this is a three-mutiny movie: commanders change faster than Italian Prime Ministers. This king-of-the-hill game gives Hackman, Washington and their cohort the chance to run around the submarine with guns and scowls. The milling is underscored with a heavy bass line that will leave moviegoers' bottoms tingling; and it is shot with lots of close-ups of manly jawlines...