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...project required 60 hours of work. And that's not fast enough in the 1990s, says Vice President for Finance Allen J. Proctor...
More is known about the identity of the Unabomber than about WOODY ALLEN'S movies before they're done. But word on the film he's shooting now is that it may be a musical (he hasn't made up his mind); it's set in Paris, Venice and New York City; and he has punched up the pulchritude level, casting Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore and a re-emergent GOLDIE HAWN (getting a leg up in Paris) rather than more cerebral regulars Judy Davis or Dianne Wiest. "This is different from anything Woody has done before," says producer Jean Doumanian...
...characters flit on- and offstage like cameos. Here is a good-natured Allen Ginsberg, a self-absorbed Anais Nin, a pathologically untruthful Truman Capote, an endearing Tennessee Williams (who, during lunch with Senator John Kennedy in Palm Beach, Florida, tells Vidal that their host has a great butt), and a rather mawkish Jack Kerouac, with whom Vidal has a brief affair. (No man is a hero to his Vidal--and every man, the author insinuates, harbors homoeroticism within...
Togas, masks, Oedipus making out with Jocasta. Hysterical? Allen only wishes...
...could have made this film well. The plot is completely disjointed and unmanageable. While "Menace II Society" proved that Allen and Albert Hughes have command of their craft, this film demonstrates that this command is not yet complete. While it is difficult to fault their direction, their choice of material is poor. No one in their right mind would take on a task this enormous, a film this epic. As young film-makers they Presidents," she showed flashes of like the wonderful of The Bronx, but was down by a poor script. Let's hope that the Hughes Brothers...