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...obscure, but Beckett no longer was. Tout Paris swarmed to his play, and the theater world soon caught up. After a disastrous U.S. premiere in Miami, Godot had a respectable Broadway run with E.G. Marshall as Vladimir and Bert Lahr as Estragon. Other beguiling star tandems never quite materialized: Alec Guinness and Ralph Richardson in London; Buster Keaton and Marlon Brando on Broadway. In the '60s, Steve McQueen wanted to star in a Godot film. Beckett declined...
...cost of top talent will be next to impossible. "The weakest studio sets the marketplace," Chernin says. "Whoever is the most panic- driven will hike up the costs." Instead, they will set their sights on mid-level stars without a proven ability to attract crowds. "Michael Keaton (Multiplicity) or Alec Baldwin (Heaven's Prisoners)--they better deliver the goods," says a studio chief...
...deadpan playlets about modern domesticity--and for their fondness for women's frocks. From these five young men (David Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney and Scott Thompson) now comes the inevitable feature film, Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy. This movie, borrowing the plot of the 1951 Alec Guinness comedy The Man in the White Suit; is about a "happy drug" that makes everyone miserable. Bad news for the Kids: the movie (directed by Kevin Makin) will have the same effect. The story is flat and shrill; the characters show little life; the needle on the giggle-ometer...
Soon she and her son are being stalked by the Teacher (Alec Baldwin), a sort of New Age hit man. She will, he insists, convince her panel to free the capo, or she and the boy will be killed. The Teacher wears his psychopathy on his sleeve as plainly as Annie wears her vulnerability, and he is also one windy dude. For a while you think maybe his plan is to bore her into submission to his evil will. ("All right. All right. I'll do anything. Just shut up about...
...Supervillain: He may, as usual, have a superweapon trained on a Western capital, but Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean), a freelance mastermind operating in today's chaotic Russia, has a dreary back story explaining how he went wrong instead of truly evil elan. Big mistake: we don't want motivation in a Bond nemesis; we want psychosis on a joyous, cosmic scale. Gert Frobe, you are missed...