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...flygirls are not an entirely new creation: the original script by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice calls for a small group of singer-dancers called "Soul Girls" to appear ever so often in the show. However, it was James A. Carmichael '01, the choreographer for this production of Jesus Christ Superstar, who really gave the "Soul Girls" some soul: he added a dash of 'tude, a handful of sexy moves, and really transformed them into the hot-n-spicy, no-holds-barred flygirls they are today. (That's fly with a "ph," as in "Phlygurlz," their self-proclaimed...
This true tale might seem to have all the narrative momentum of a lawnmower pulling the Cheops pyramid up an Alp. It does move, thanks to the script by John Roach and Mary Sweeney. It keeps finding new ways to make rural decency dramatic. But the soul of the film is in Farnsworth's eyes--great watery repositories of wisdom and regret. "The worst part of bein' old," he says, "is rememberin' when you was young." Alvin's tragic memories give perspective to the triumph of his trek, even as Farnsworth's weathered brilliance makes this movie...
...nice folks, with two nice kids--and they all lived miserably ever after. So Ben (Bruce Willis) and Katie (Michelle Pfeiffer) are nearly splitsville. The Alan Zweibel-Jessie Nelson script, which wants to be true and funny, tries too hard to be either. There are a few moments (notably Pfeiffer's sweet, blathery peroration) to remind you of when a Rob Reiner film was a treat and not a chore. But mostly the movie is like the marriage: good casting, golden promise, yet somehow a grating ordeal. The Story of Us means to describe pain; instead, it inflicts...
...John Malkovich (speaking languidly, as if reciting a solilquoy in creepy monotone): I don't know if I can answer that, because I can't tell who the real John Malkovich is at all. Certainly, when I first read the script, it struck me as being something familiar to me. Perhaps this story is something I could have lived, without being something I actually lived in reality. I don't think [the Malkovich of the film] is so much like me, but I like that. I remember one of the first reactions I had when reading it was quite creepy...
...thought that both Cameron Diaz and Catherine Keener did a wonderful job with Lotte and Maxine, but that, as two versatile actresses, you probably could have played either part. Did you gravitate towards these roles when the script first came across your desk...