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...would let sleeping sex symbols lie. But now, 40 years later, he has revisited his marriage in yet another play, Finishing the Picture, an account of the making of The Misfits, the 1961 movie Miller wrote for his wife, which turned out to be Monroe's and co-star Clark Gable's last film...
...except bruised toes. A remake of Japanese director Masayuki Suo’s 1996 film of the same title—from which it imports most scenes and some dialogue—the movie ultimately seems as bungling on its feet as many of the characters it portrays. John Clark (Richard Gere) wants to ballroom dance. In Suo’s Japanese film this is understandably mortifying because, as a voiceover tells us at the outset, “In a country where married couples don’t go out arm in arm…the idea that...
...Staff writer Monica M. Clark can be reached at mclark@fas.harvard.edu...
...horse-riding accident left him paralyzed; of an infection from a pressure wound; in Mount Kisco, New York. Reeve won the Superman role in 1977 after a brief stage career and a single bit part in a film, and gave the character strength, romance and, as alter ego Clark Kent, a deft comic touch. After his accident, Reeve became a powerful spokesman for spinal-injury victims, advocating the use of fetal stem cells for medical research...
Susan Sarandon alone seems determined not to play her role as a caricature and stands head and shoulders above the rest of the cast as a result. It’s not surprising that her character seems the most genuine: when the possibility of an affair disappears, Mrs. Clark is pretty nonplussed by her husband’s sashaying shenanigans and never quite understands what all the fuss is about...