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These thrillers won't be chosen for the National Film Registry of great movies; as Enough director Michael Apted says, "This ain't Chekhov." They may not always pass the plausibility test. But these films do let audiences see top actresses playing strong characters. "People want to root for their favorite female stars," Foster says. "Audiences don't want a woman just to be the sister-of, daughter-of, wife-of. This proves they're not only open to, but absolutely behind, the idea of a woman going through some terrible danger and finding the gumption and the brawn...
...that the events are exaggerated versions of things that happened to them or people they knew and that they didn't start the book until after they had stopped nannying. Nor did they set out to write a sizzling roman a clef; they were shooting more for Chekhov. "We noticed that in a lot of books in N.Y.U.'s Great Books Program, nannies were mentioned," says McLaughlin. "They were always a peripheral but pivotal figure...
...Yorkers are not crazy simply because they live in tiny boxes and pay mansion prices. They are crazy because hundreds of them a night are willing to camp out in record heat for free theater tickets. The occasion is an all-star production of Chekhov's The Seagull in Central Park, starring KEVIN KLINE, MERYL STREEP, John Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman and Christopher Walken. But if Chekhov knew how a man of Goodman's girth can sweat, he might have written in a Towel Boy character. In a week when temperatures soared to 103[degrees...
...Jessica Tandy, Zero Mostel and Sara Algood all appeared during the 1940s and 50s on the Brattle stage, which showcased plays from Shakespeare to Chekhov in the Queen Anne-style shingled house...
...year was 1967, and Peter O'Toole was preparing to co-star with Katharine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter. One night in London, after a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters, O'Toole knocked on the dressing-room door of the young actor playing the brother. "O'Toole was standing there, two sheets to the wind, as they say," recalls the actor. "He said, 'Would you like to be in a film...