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Back on the movie screen, some of the big names besides Bertolucci were disappointing their fans. Robert Altman's Kansas City, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Miranda Richardson, shrouds the aimless bustle of its plot--kidnapping, murder and political maneuvering set against a 1934 jazz milieu--in an opium haze of dramatic anomie. Stephen Frears' The Van, third in the series that includes The Commitments and The Snapper, is a noisy mess, with shouting in lieu of wit and brawls stunt-doubling for character conflict. But this pub/pug violence was mild next to the atrocities in David Cronenberg's Crash...
Postscript: Many have cited Mandy Grunwald and sister Lisa Grunwald--a published novelist--as potential co-authors with both the inside knowledge and literary skill to have pulled off Primary Colors. Mandy denies it and has her own suspect: Roger Altman, the former Deputy Treasury Secretary who was an economic adviser to Clinton during the 1992 campaign. Indeed, since leaving the Administration in 1994 after a dispute over his testimony to the Senate Whitewater committee, Altman may have had the time to write a novel. His response: "It's both flattering and preposterous...
This is Daniel Altman's last column...
...trained at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. On her first CD, just released, she's being marketed a bit more wholesomely than her peers. "There is a fine line between really being able to convey something fresh and new and likable, and going over the top," observes Lisa Altman, vice president of Philips Classics, Josefowicz's label. "I don't think we've done that with Leila. She's got that Ivory Soap-Seventeen magazine type of appeal. We didn't want to take a short-term approach because I expect she is going to have a long, prolific...
...Daniel Altman's column appears on alternate Mondays...