Pride By David Polandpoland@moviecitynews.com
Weekend, 30 August 1997
What’s Labor Day all about? Theme-itis hits The Hot Button! GOING INTO LABOR Oliver Stone’s novel, A Child’s Night Dream, will hit bookshelves soon. Stone says that the story, about someone named Oliver Stone, is not autobiographical. Let’s hope not. He writes about he and mom being “entwined like snakes of desire…” And of dad?…
Read the full article »Friday, 29 August 1997
Dunkin’ Donuts has hooked up with 20th Century Fox to cross-promote Home Alone 3′s Thanksgiving release, finally explaining why the police never showed up in the first two films. Bill Duke, director of Hoodlum, reports that he was forced to remove many uses of the word “nigger” from his film due to strong objections by…
Read the full article »Thursday, 28 August 1997
Geena Davis filed for divorce Tuesday from Finnish director Renny Harlin. Her next relationship, uh, I mean, role, is not yet set. Kim Basinger appeared in Albuquerque, NM, railing against flawed animal welfare laws. “These animals are kept in horrific conditions. They’re dragged around cities, suffering in the name of entertainment,” she said. The 50…
Read the full article »Wednesday, 27 August 1997
Steven Seagal, musician, (are you laughing yet?) is doing a Fire Down Below blues music tour, inspired by his latest film. Unfortunately for stud boy Seagal, he hasn’t seen anything “down below” since his “pregnancy” — apparently, he’s having triplets. Now if only Warner Bros. can get Brando’s Apocalypse Now cinematographer to light him for…
Read the full article »August 26, 1997
From the Sometimes A Cigar Is Just A Cigar Dept. — Jim Belushi, Peter Weller and David Caruso have committed to James Orr’s Blowing Smoke, a cigar club Swingers for the over-40 set. If cigars are a symbol of career virility, maybe these three should be sucking on Virginia Slims. Quentin Tarantino’s heading for Broadway….
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Would 11.1 million dollars thrill or appall you? Depends whether you spent $100 million on G.I. Jane or $30 million on Money Talks. Audiences will be pleased to know that Masterminds’ $1 million start will cause almost as many moans at Sony HQ as the retro-1983 trailer did in theaters. Air Force One’s Gary Oldman…
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Robert Redford and GCC are starting a chain of theaters for independent film only called Sundance Cinemas. But what’s going to happen to the real indie experience? It’s 2 A.M. You arrive at the abandoned hot tub factory. You and your date get out of the car, keeping an eye out for muggers and murderers….
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