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DIED. JOAN LITTLEWOOD, 87, pioneering director; in London. A 5-ft. 2-in., chain-smoking agent provocateur, Littlewood staged radical theater from her Theatre Workshop in London's East End. She had hoped her plays would attract the working class, but it was chichi West Enders who became her loyal audience for such works as Brendan Behan's The Hostage and the antiwar satire Oh What a Lovely...
...erstwhile London stage actor now synonymous with the savage and intellectual Lecter. "He's Darth Vader," says Red Dragon director Brett Ratner. "He's Superman." Hopkins, who was paid more than $10 million for the leading role in Hannibal, was reluctant to revisit the part a third time. "My agent said, 'Do you want to do it?'" recalls Hopkins, 64. "I said, 'I've done two,' and he said, 'Well, it wouldn't be a bad idea.'" Not bad at all. For his supporting role in Red Dragon (as in Silence of the Lambs, he has only a few choice...
...peel off his own face with a knife, has also incited some unseemly behavior at Hollywood studios. MGM--which owns the movie rights to Harris' Silence of the Lambs--threatened to sue before Universal rolled the cameras on Hannibal. MGM laid legal claim to the character of fbi agent Clarice Starling, who had been introduced in Lambs. Ultimately, Universal made MGM a partner on Hannibal...
Despite the appetite for more Lecter movies, the $80 million Red Dragon almost didn't get made. "Hannibal was a big hit," says an agent, "but most people in Hollywood thought it was an awful movie that almost killed the franchise." With its baroque gore and pitch-black humor (Ray Liotta ate his own brains), the movie was jarring compared with the more subtle Lambs, which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. And even though Manhunter made peanuts at the box office, it is highly regarded by some filmmakers...
...question is, With all three of Harris' Lecter books having been filmed at least once, what happens to the franchise? The secretive author is not expected to write another Lecter novel anytime soon (if ever). "He takes several years to do a book," says Harris' agent, Mort Janklow. "I have no idea whether his next project is going to have Hannibal." Hopkins says he's through playing the role: "I've done my act, and I've got no more to show...