Word: biopics
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...what you think you know,” the tagline for Ali, seems to be the line for Mann’s career, which includes The Last of the Mohicans and the brilliant Insider. This time around, Mann tackles the controversial life of boxer Muhammad Ali (Smith) in a biopic that covers the decade from the 1964 championship to the “Rumble in the Jungle” with George Foreman in 1974. Mann’s stylings aside, the real test of Ali’s worth will be whether or not Smith can pull it off. Perennially...
...Winners BJORK Icelandic pop singer gets the French Order of Merit. Her Big Bird Oscar dress is being considered for the French Order of Falconry FRANK ABAGNALE JR. Retired con man to be played by Leonardo DiCaprio in biopic. Leo to draw on experience conning audiences into watching The Beach IRISH MONKS OF GLENSTAL ABBEY Benedictine brothers' book of prayers is a best-seller. New business plans: hair shirt swimsuit and B. Bros' Hip Hop Hymns Losers TONY RODHAM Hillary Clinton's brother is caught having sex with another man's girlfriend and beaten up. That right-wing conspiracy just...
...their alcohol- and drug-dependency than he was (Hill sketches Southern as a functional "user" whose biggest weaknesses were drink and Dexamyl - used to complete manuscripts on short deadlines): William Burroughs and a far-gone Dennis Hopper on an adaptation of Burroughs' "Junky"; Larry Flynt and Hopper on a biopic of Jim Morrison; singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, another "grand" soul, on the aforementioned "Telephone...
With all his concerns about legacy, you'd think Bill Clinton might choose a noted patriot and mythologizer like Steven Spielberg to direct his biopic. Instead he tapped WES CRAVEN, the man behind Scream and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Craven was enlisted to direct a hastily arranged White House shoot on Jan. 13 in which Clinton conducted a three-hour tour of the Oval Office, Cabinet room and residence. The finished product will be screened at Clinton's yet to be constructed presidential library. "Here I am, I've made some of the most horrific films...
...unlikely entry because you just don't see many musicals at this relentlessly arty independent film festival. But Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the biopic of a whacked-out East German emigre with Courtney Love's disposition and Farrah Fawcett's hairdo, seduced the selection committee. "It's burning with originality and energy," says programmer Shari Frilot. Hedwig always did. When it opened off-Broadway three years ago, critics raved about Stephen Trask's songs, and although the show's writer and star, John Cameron Mitchell, appeared nightly in drag (usually the fastest road to camp marginalization), his hilarious, moving...