Word: biopics
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...sweet-souled wimp: he uses a gun only in defense of a friend; he is introduced to cocaine by his white wife, whom he finds in bed with a Hollywood sleaze bag. Instead of the fierce artistry of Pryor's comic monologues, he offers a decorous TV biopic: The Hallmark Hall of Flame...
...number of lowing hierarchs and potentates in his nearly 30- year exile from another chance to astonish Hollywood. Now that he is dead, the industry that discarded him will nominate him for sainthood. It may also realize that in his life it has a surefire biopic: Citizen Welles. But who, now that he is dead, would play the title role? More important, who could direct...
...African you are looking very white." Statesman, sportsman, raconteur, eccentric gourmet, General Idi Amin Dada made a lot of people blanch in his eight years as Uganda's dictator. With Amin now in asylum in Saudi Arabia, Director Sharad Patel has felt free to turn this biopic into a minstrel show of atrocity. Amin struts across his domain like Kong with a salad of Day-Glo medals pinned to his chest. Amin expels Asian workers from Uganda and distributes the spoils to his private army of hitmen. Amin services an interracial harem. Amin juggles the lives of Arab radicals...
This is the movie version, and it cleaves as tenaciously to the facts as any star biopic from Hollywood's heady days. Fassbinder built his reputation with films (The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Marriage of Maria Braun) that played high-voltage melodrama as deadpan farce; here he has turned Lale's tale into what Hanna Schygulla, who impersonates her in the film, calls "a Nazi fairy tale." As the new star gorges on her celebrity, making love to her mirror image in a palatial white bedroom, her countrymen starve...
...April 5-8) begins a few years later and chronicles the last desperate stand, in a Judean fortress, of 960 Jews against the more than 10,000 soldiers and Jewish captives of the Roman Tenth Legion. In achievement, though, the two shows are worlds apart: one is standard solemn biopic, the other a provocative, often eloquent drama of the near first rate...