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When Before Sunset, the romance she co-wrote, snagged an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2004, the French actress acquired a taste for the other side of filmmaking. First up is a comedy about a bickering couple's European vacation, starring Delpy (above right) and Adam Goldberg...
...there ensues one of the best opening sequences I've seen in recent years. He wants to get more money for a digital camera than the store's owner (an obscure actress named Phyllis Somerville) wants to give him. He sets about reading and manipulating her mind. She knows what he's doing, gives as good as she gets and ends up adding fifty bucks to her price in return for the "entertainment." The scene is smart, funny, and as well acted as it is written...
...could be one of many such films, which seem to be a dime a dozen nowadays. But its creators hope it will stand out. “There are actually quite a lot of scripts like this that are flowing around,” says Steph Song, an actress from the movie, in a phone interview with The Crimson. Song, who plays the love interest in the film, believes that there is an abundance of such coming-of-age works in the field. But for Song, one aspect of the film’s script elevates it above all others...
...Stardust, Pfeiffer plays a witch who sometimes looks 20 (at 49 the actress seems to have been instantly time-warped to her Scarface youth) and sometimes 200, with frown lines and liver spots popping up in seconds. "What I didn't anticipate was the horror of wearing all those prosthetics," she says. "The hardest thing is sitting in that chair five hours while they're applied, and knowing you have another 12 hours keeping them on." Wearing all that wrinkly glop on your face is hard enough--but how do you act through it? "There's a certain lack...
...RECENT YEARS SHE SHONE brightly as a National Medal of Arts honoree and elegant, tireless philanthropist. But the long career of effervescent singer-actress Kitty Carlisle Hart spanned media from film (the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera, Woody Allen's Radio Days) to stage (On Your Toes) to opera (Die Fledermaus, her 1966 debut at the Met). Hart, whose husband was playwright Moss Hart, was best known for her 1956-67 stint as a lively celebrity panelist on TV's To Tell the Truth...