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David Levine, as the youth Mike, growls and sneers on an endless quest for new thrills. His resonant voice lingers with menace as he reads his lines, a hilarious mixture of Shakespeare and punk lingo. Mike's companion, Les (Greg Clayman), contrasts with Mike's colorfulness. Clayman's portrayal is less flamboyant than Levine's, but he channels equal energy into Les' edgy and twitching pent-up hate. This hate surfaces at key moments, as when Les' releases his fury in derisive impressions of his ignorant boss...
Thus spectators and reporters had to strain to hear the response last week when Acting Justice Elliott Wilk asked a simple, direct question: Should the world-famous director/actor/writer or his leading lady and companion of 12 years be granted custody of the three children they share...
...film takes on a life of its own," he says. "You guide that life along like a platoon leader, getting everybody kind of enthused to charge the hill." To a relative newcomer like actress Frances Fisher, who plays the prostitute Strawberry Alice in Unforgiven and is Eastwood's current companion, it all seems seamless. "He is the most confident director I have ever seen. He kind of glides through it all." Distractions are kept to a minimum and posturing discouraged. "He says very little to you," says Hackman, whom Eastwood lured to play the sheriff in Unforgiven. "I appreciate that...
...immune system seems to have held the villainous virus at bay. "It feels good to be on the winning side of HIV," he says. Looking to the future with surprisingly little fear, he hopes to fix up the crumbling Victorian house that he shares with his HIV-negative companion of 10 years...
ASPEN'S TWIN PEAKS (ABC): Limited-run series. In the two-hour premiere, a lost skier, played by Kyle MacLachlan, goes for help, leaving his companion (Lara Flynn Boyle) in a cabin with only doughnuts to eat. She spends the next seven episodes hallucinating about a dancing dwarf (Jason Alexander). Directed by Jennifer Lynch...