Word: anjelica
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Film-noir fans quickly spotted the similarities between the Kimeses and the mother-and-son team of con artists in The Grifters, the 1990 movie starring Anjelica Huston and John Cusack. But any reader of dime-store detective novels knows that true grifters take their haul by trickery, not violence. When the police investigation is over, the Kimeses may be known by a less exotic word in the criminal lexicon: murderers...
...prison where he's just done a five-year stretch with three missions. The first, and most hilariously pressing, is to find a place to take a pee. The next is to find a girl willing to pose as his fiance and help him convince his sublimely indifferent parents (Anjelica Huston and Ben Gazzara) that he's been doing top-secret CIA work all the years he was in jail. The last is to assassinate the Buffalo Bills placekicker whose missed field goal caused him to lose the bet that led him into a life of crime...
Even by Versace standards, the celebrity quotient at last week's spring ready-to-wear show in Milan was high. Demi Moore, Anjelica Huston, Peter Gabriel, Boy George and Cher all showed up. Linda Evangelista and NAOMI CAMPBELL made rare runway appearances. Even other designers, including Giorgio Armani, Karl Lagerfeld, Donna Karan and Miuccia Prada, came to offer support and perhaps to see what DONATELLA VERSACE, who has taken over design duties at the label since her brother's death, could do with a needle and thread. No one seemed disappointed--though it's hard to imagine anyone's being...
Being a first-time director is a risky game. Even if you have ANJELICA HUSTON's pedigree. TNT contracted Huston to make a version of the cult novel Bastard Out of Carolina, although the suits at the studio knew that the subject matter--a girl who's molested by her stepfather--wasn't exactly family fare. When Huston delivered her film, gritty scenes and all, it dawned on Turner execs (particularly Ted) that they couldn't air the movie without vigorous cuts. "Her vision of the film and what we could air were not the same thing," says...
President Neil L. Rudenstine and his wife Anjelica Zander Rudenstine met with hundreds of first-years at the annual President's Dance...