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...stage mother who was her closest and only adviser (Mary faced the moneymen without an agent or manager). Though she never took director's credit, she supervised every aspect of production. When she founded United Artists with Fairbanks, Chaplin and D.W. Griffith, Pickford was the one with the canniest business sense. Later she had plastic surgery, three fraught marriages, a substance-abuse problem (alcohol) and two show-biz siblings, Jack and Lottie, with a talent for scandal. Instead of ensuring iconic immortality by dying young, Mary outlived her fame, ending up as cranky and isolated as Sunset Blvd.'s Norma...
...canniest take on the teen trend, go to a potential teen idol: James Marsden, the talented, feloniously gorgeous star of Disturbing Behavior, who speaks of teens from the remote perspective of his 25 years. "They are a very intelligent generation," he says, "more intelligent than I was. They are cynical, sarcastic. The less a movie tries to cater to them, the more they want to go see it. And their influence is amazing. Why don't you just have 14-year-olds run the studios...
...movie declines to enthrall, it is because its creators forgot what makes the show shine. An hour of dense thoughtfulness and outrageous gamesmanship, it often steps ahead of its canniest viewers, never afraid to mystify or end with a shivery question mark. Skull and Mull--braininess and wondering...
...CABLE GUY (June 14). Then again, the $20 million that Columbia paid Jim Carrey to appear in this comedy of obsession looks like the summer's canniest investment. With loose-dentured diction and bodice-ripping devotion, he leeches onto mild-mannered Matthew Broderick. Only a genius of goonery, an Ace Caricatura like Carrey, could play an egregious pest and make him appealing--at least for the 2 min. 25 sec. of the trailer...
POOR RICHARD NIXON: THE MOST human 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...