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...sooner does Bruce (Jason Scott Lee, no relation) conquer the little world of kung fu than he moves on to the larger -- well, anyway, flashier -- world of show biz. And, of course, more troubles that need braving out: he plays Kato on The Green Hornet TV series, but it gets canceled; he has a million- dollar idea for another series, which is swept out from under him because the network doesn't want the Chinese hero played by a Chinese actor (hence the lead in Kung Fu goes to David Carradine). Bruce returns to his roots, from which he draws...
...mirror. Over the years he is molested by an uncle, tormented by a cousin, tossed like a beanbag by insensitive adolescents. At last a domestic upset ends with the mirror shattered, setting Tommy free of his autistic isolation. He flees home, becomes a tabloid curiosity and show-biz superstar. Then he returns to his family to celebrate normal life. Rather than a mystical icon of spiritual regeneration through transcendence, as he seemed at a less materialistic moment in popular culture, he now stands for rehabilitation and forgiveness, almost as if enrolled in some 12-step recovery program. Michael Cerveris, saintly...
...vocal reach as she did at the 1991 Tony Awards (satirized by Forbidden Broadway, to the tune of I Could Have Danced All Night, as "I couldn't hit that note"). But two other numbers that would suit her quiet intensity -- the lovelorn Losing My Mind and the show-biz survivor's anthem I'm Still Here -- are left out, apparently because they appeared in Side by Side. Adding one in each act would make audiences happier without thwarting Andrews' gracious insistence on an ensemble show...
Sure, partly. This is a commercial novel, and if you have to bludgeon readers to get their attention, well, that's show biz. But the author has more to tell. A succession of interleaved flashbacks gives a strange family history, seen through a camera's cold eye. Through happenstance, her grandfather, an American migrant to Mexico, became a photographer in the early days of the art and specialized in elaborate portraits of dead children in confirmation finery. A meningitis plague brought him prosperity. He was a journeyman, but his son, her father, became a famed photographic artist, whose morbid specialty...
Oscar sure-thing actress, most touts would say. The English star of Howards End, the bride of all-everything show-biz phenom Kenneth Branagh, is an odds- on favorite to win Best Actress. And an Academy Award is Hollywood's certification of radiance. If the movie industry gives Thompson an Oscar next Monday evening, it will show it recognizes a potentially great movie lady in spring bloom...