Word: biopic
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...flight. Corrigan agreed to return to California--but once in the air, headed east. Touching down in Ireland 28 hours later, Corrigan, straight-faced but twinkle-eyed, attributed his detour to a faulty compass. This combination of chutzpah and heroism propelled him to international celebrity, leading to a Hollywood biopic (he played himself) and a lifetime of personal appearances...
...President of the television age. A better statesman than politician, a tireless but graceless campaigner, a successful salesman who was liked but not well liked, the man seemed uncomfortable in his own skin. The canniest moments in the three-plus hours of Nixon, Oliver Stone's dense, ultimately disappointing biopic, capture Nixon at his most pathetically endearing--the Commander in Chief as klutz. In a telling vignette lifted from Woodward and Bernstein's The Final Days, Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) gets so frustrated at his inability to remove a medicine safety cap that he finally bites...
Potent women in other fields are also welcome in the new Hollywood. Whitney Houston, who co-stars in this Christmas' Waiting to Exhale, has several projects in development, including a biopic of actress Dorothy Dandridge. And Oprah Winfrey just signed a five-year deal with Disney. "You won't see me shooting or stalking or being shot," she says. "I want to do films that enhance people's lives...
Cinema: How can a Dorothy Parker biopic be witless...
...will ever confuse writer-director Ron Shelton's new film with The Pride of the Yankees. It is not really a baseball movie or a biopic at all. It is a meditation on the nature of genius, which is not a word we usually apply to ballplayers, even great ones. But that's how Ty Cobb saw himself, and that's how he wanted to be remembered. To that end, in the last year of his life, he hired a sportswriter named Al Stump to help him write his autobiography. Cobb's orders were to ignore anything in his life...