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...throw scripts at me for the dumbest s___," he says. "I'm not an actor! I don't want to play Santa Claus' gay assistant. I have to buckle down and be the designer that I went on the show to be." (O.K., he's not a total shrinking violet: his where-is-he-now? special, Project Jay, airs on Bravo in February...
Your item ''Larry the Shrinking Violet'' ((Chronicles, Nov. 29)) noted that I had dropped by a party held by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen the night of the Administration's NAFTA victory. I was en route to a taping of my show at CNN, and I was not wearing a ''cozy white warm-up outfit,'' as you said, but my usual on-air uniform: dress shirt, tie, suspenders, respectable dark dress trousers and my favorite baseball jacket, which celebrates Japan's Nippon Ham Fighters team. That didn't seem to bother anyone; President Clinton even asked where he could...
Hudson isn’t a bad actress—we’ll leave that to “Jill the Thrill”—but she does little to transcend the trite. In this film, acting deftness seems to increase with age. Rowlands as Violet Devereaux, the overbearing wife, is convincingly crazy and generally splendid. Hurt may not have many lines as the stroke-burdened husband, Ben Devereaux, but his haunting stare and stark showing of sickness are the scariest parts of the early minutes...
...most fitting “sign of the times” transformation, however, is Violet Beauregarde: no longer just interested in gum, Violet is a velour sweatsuited competition freak—egged on by her Soccer (or more appropriately Baton-Twirling) Mom, played deliciously, in matching attire, by Missy Pyle...
...crime and how much remorse the guilty party shows. In Colonie, defendants finish their sentences by serving on a jury. "They know what it's like to be in that hot seat, so they're in a good position to find a punishment that suits the crime," says Violet Colydas, the youth court's director...