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...ANGELES: Robert Mitchum, for 50 years Hollywood's sleepy-eyed antihero, is dead at 79. Diagnosed in spring with lung cancer, Mitchum succumbed at 5 a.m. in his sleep Monday at his Santa Barbara County home, family spokesman Jerry Roberts said. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in 1917 as Robert Charles Duran Mitchum, he was one of Hollywood's earliest bad boys. He came from a deliciously checkered past of arrests, odd jobs, and wanderings, and in 1948, he was arrested for possession of marijuana at the home of a starlet. In interviews, Mitchum liked to blame his image on publicists...
...with starsurfer Luke and antihero Han Solo and all the pudgy, pasty-faced rebel pilots finally functioning as a team, Star Wars has declared its intention: to be a celebration of communal subversiveness. The Jedi Force is itself a kind of cosmic team spirit. So it's appropriate that the movie come back into theaters to give kids of all ages the communal kick of a big-screen experience. Some early viewers have applauded the new material; others (the true believers) have booed it. But all cheer when the Millennium Falcon zaps into hyperspace; it is a video game...
...bravado that spells sexiness in the mid-'90s. Well, tsk-tsk and all that. But good movies make their own morals. And this one, based on Irvine Welsh's trend-spotting novel, is also and mainly a display of savvy camerabatics. Though grim death hangs like crepe over our antihero (star-in-the-making Ewan McGregor) and his mates, the John Hodge script and Danny Boyle's direction couldn't be more vital. Aesthetically, at least, Trainspotting chooses life...
...Profit (Fox) A heinous antihero (named Jim Profit), who made J.R. Ewing look like Bob Saget. A corporate empire shrouded in mystery. A wry subtext that attacked the evils of techno-culture. Profit had it all--except a decent-size audience. This mesmerizingly original corporate thriller was canceled after just a few outings, and yet we will never forget the chill of star Adrian Pasdar's insidious whisper...
...analogy of a vineyard in Napa for a rural estate outside Moscow, and of Hollywood glitterati for Tsarist Russia's belle lettristes gives the play a contemporary edge without sacrificing any of its subtlety. The primitive set places the dialogue and acting center stage. But like Chekhov's antihero, the Cornerstone takes it all too far. At one point, the director, Bill Rauch, injects a gratuitous mime sequence, in which Konstantin (or Cam, as he is now called) jumps into an imaginary lake and wades laboriously away to the tune of pre-recorded gurgles. Similarly, although the adaptation's reduction...