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Having experienced The Jackal (working title: Aging Hunks Shoot It Out), I wish to publicly retract that statement. Director Michael Caton-Jones, of Rob Roy fame (or ignominy, depending on how you see it), has created for us a confused jumble of bad accents, loud music, stale techno-babble and Richard Gere. The studio swears it's a remake of the 1973 thriller Day Of The Jackal, but this Jackal resembles neither its predecessor nor the Frederick Forsythe novel on which it was based, except that it contains an international terrorist known only as "The Jackal...
...suit, blond and ponytail wigs, fake noses and geeky glasses. And not one of his trademark Die Hard "Yippee-ki-yays" in earshot. According to the director, even the actor seemed thrown by his villainous new persona. "It slightly confused him a couple of times," says Michael Caton-Jones, who spent part of last week reshooting the end of the film. "We had to stop and talk it out." Whether the Many Faces of Bruce will be able to get fans of the original movie into theaters is another story. But Caton-Jones has little patience for purists. "If they...
...minded families are abandoning the heavily Jewish area because of their new neighbors. Critics in other parts of Florida warn of dark--if vague--consequences. "You are going to have a lot of people over the years who are offended by the large number of homosexuals there," says David Caton, president of the American Family Association of Florida, which has opposed gay-rights ordinances throughout the state...
...money somehow wound up financing a never-completed, R-rated movie called "Beauty Queens," but the Texas senator vehemently denies that he ever had any interest in financing pornography. Wednesday night, Gramm branded as false an account of the 1974 transaction by his former brother-in-law, George Caton, reported this week in The New Republic. One of the story's most damaging charges: that Gramm took an interest in movie investing after watching a film called "Truck Stop Women." TIME Austin bureau chief S.C. Gwynne notes that no one, including The New Republic reporter, has yet established that...
...managed to get around the chinks of conscious rejection and stick there uncomfortably? Maybe, Or maybe it was an uneasy empathy with the director, who tries so hard to be barely ordinary. The murky aims of the late twentieth century overshadow any clean drama of the eighteenth century in Caton-Jones's unfortunate saga...