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They recognize Film Producer Freddie Fields and his friends in the Polo Lounge, but Fields is a long way from Beverly Hills, on patrol in deepest North Carolina. With him are Australian Director Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant, Tender Mercies) and several indisputable movie stars--notably Diane Keaton, Sissy Spacek and Jessica Lange--in addition to the assorted children, nannies, pets, significant others, caterers, crew members, drivers, accountants, studio biggies, flacks, journalists, rent-a-cops, cutpurses and dancing bears that accumulate when a film company hits the road. Fields, Beresford and the rest have come to North Carolina for the filming...
...extras, "but they feed us out of this world. And I do feel like a celebrity. I'd do it again, yes, ma'am. In a heartbeat." Today she has played a townswoman meeting a bus. Just now she is watching another scene being shot and reshot: Sissy Spacek, as the youngest MaGrath sister, Babe, looking on forlornly as her 15- year-old black lover Willie Jay and his dog Dog, each wearing sunglasses as disguise, leave town on the same bus. (Babe, who is impulsive, has shot her nasty husband Zackery, leaving him perforated but not terminated...
...know one another before Crimes. They have maintained separate lives off the set. Lange lives with Playwright-Actor Sam Shepard, who plays her former lover in the film, their six-month-old daughter Hannah and Lange's five-year-old daughter Shura, whose father is Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. Spacek moved into a house with her husband Jack Fisk and their three-year-old daughter Schuyler. Keaton has a house on the beach...
Feminism marches on. In Violets Are Blue, it is the woman who leads a life of romantic adventure, the man who is stuck in the mud of middle-class responsibility, yearning not quite hard enough to fly free. She is Gussie Sawyer (Sissy Spacek), who has left Ocean City, Md., to become an ace photojournalist. He is Henry Squires (Kevin Kline), who has inherited his family's newspaper and the usual passel of burdens: wife, child, civic duties. They were lovers once, and become lovers again when she returns home for a vacation. Will he accept her invitation to join...
...Spacek and Kline could have generated some electricity between them, this issue might have been more promising. But they are grounded by a predictable script by Naomi Foner and the cliche-ridden direction of Spacek's husband Jack Fisk. The result may someday become a footnote in the history of the impact of feminism on Hollywood romance. Moviegoers looking for fun and frolic are advised to wait for the book. By Richard Schickel...