Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...objects flying through the air. And, of course, one of the stars threatening to take a few days off in Brazil. Seems she had an urgent need to consult with her psychic. The near unmaking of The Marrying Man and the on-set tiffing between its lead actors, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, made a much read and sermonized-over feature in Premiere magazine. See what happens, said Hollywood, when you give stars too much power as well as too much money...
That is not as easy as it sounds. The lead lounge lizard, toothpaste heir Charley Pearl (Baldwin), is engaged and attending a Las Vegas bachelor party when he falls into obsession with nightclub singer Vicki Anderson (Basinger). She, in turn, is the mistress of the Strip's founding mobster, Bugsy Siegel. In other words, these are not people with whom one feels an immediate natural identification. Nor is their problem -- a stormy relationship that requires them to marry and separate four times -- one for which most people are likely to have an affinity...
Charley is surrounded by some funny best friends, led by comedian Paul Reiser, who keeps the one-liners bouncing. And Baldwin plays dumb and earnest in an engaging way. Basinger is something of a problem. She is a very self- absorbed actress who gives the impression of a woman trying to get in on a joke she does not quite understand. Watching her reminds one wistfully of tart, smart Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys. But you can't have everything, and considering the difficulties of its creation, The Marrying Man is something: a comedy that bounces skittishly down...
...ranges freely and effortlessly through history, literature and philosophy, taking the reader in the course of a few pages from the Harlem of James Baldwin to the Rome of Sixtus V, from Edmund Spenser to Hannah Arendt to Mies van der Rohe...
...novel was never quite fulfilled. While I could read anything during my free time, the scope of the novels I read for academic purposes was severely limited. I frequently found myself asking teachers to make an exception so that I could do outside reading projects on the likes of Baldwin, Hurston or Langston Hughes. I could connect personally with their characters. These people were Black like me. I wanted the opportunity to be captivated by the stories of my people who were speaking from a Black perspective about my history...