Word: camera
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems unlikely that Janeane Garofalo will be singing the lyrics to the Brady Bunch song or otherwise manifesting media-savvy Gen-Xiness the next time she gets in front of the camera. The self-deprecating comic and star of the film The Truth About Cats & Dogs is tackling her first dramatic role in the gritty upcoming movie Copland. She will play a police officer who'd better not slack. Her partner? Sylvester Stallone...
...James Mangold's Heavy, she is a waitress at an upstate New York diner, and the cow-size chef gets mooncalf eyes at her approach. These movies are all about looking at Liv. They are votive offerings to a budding star from old connoisseurs and randy swains. When the camera isn't genuflecting before Tyler, it's copping a feel...
Partly this is because Tyler is virtually the only young person around; everyone else is tired or bored or dying. But also because she truly is at ease with herself and the camera. Her allure can seem a come-on, but she's not a flaunter; she doesn't shake her beauty. And remember, she's only a kid (the credits for Heavy include an acknowledgment to "Miss Tyler's tutors"). Even now she takes an unselfconscious delight in the attention paid to her--in the '90s it's called poise. And that will serve her well if she ever...
...bell bottoms. "You're so sexy," George tells her, "even the wild animals love you." That line wouldn't get most men very far. But here, in the glamorous, goofily lewd world of Strangers, it proves winning. Before we know it, George is relieving Julie of her bra. On camera...
...film Ben-Hur was a homosexual one. Without meaning to, of course, Heston utterly confirms Vidal's assertion that director William Wyler told Vidal that Heston would "fall apart" if he knew about the homosexual subtext they conspired to feed Boyd behind Heston's back. All this behind-the-camera intrigue is rendered moot, however, if you just watch the scene. You can see Boyd playing that he is in love. It's perfectly clear. The funniest thing about Heston's letter to TIME is not his Old Guard brand of homophobia but what it says about his shortcomings...