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TRUTH OR DARE. Madonna, stern mistress of her own evolving image, invites the camera along on her Blond Ambition concert tour. This rude documentary, long but lots of fun, features star cameos by Warren Beatty, Kevin Costner and Sandra Bernhard...
Stars are brand names: they sell tickets because they are the people we want to see and be. So the received wisdom says Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves will be a summer smash, not because Americans want a fantasy history lesson set in 12th century England but because Kevin Costner is running the show. Costner has made so many left-field hits lately (baseball movies, even westerns) that Hollywood figures he can do no wrong. It wants to forget that in between Field of Dreams and Dances with Wolves, he detonated a minibomb called Revenge...
...this is pure, adulterated Madonna. Giving her all to simulated masturbation in the Like a Virgin number. Blithely stripping for the camera. Calling Beatty a wimp (more or less) because he is sensibly shy of her camera. Recalling some erotic nurse play with a childhood girlfriend. Gagging when Kevin Costner says her show was "neat." Consummating an intimate relationship with a bottle of Vichy water. Two hours of dishing and dissing in relentless, bathroom-mirror closeup...
What movie studio wouldn't be dancing in the streets with films like The Silence of the Lambs and Dances with Wolves to its credit? Answer: Orion Pictures, the studio that released both hits. The Jodie Foster thriller and the Kevin Costner western come at the end of a losing streak that has lasted more than two years and helped run up $500 million of debt with such busts as The Hot Spot, State of Grace and Valmont. So even though Lambs and Wolves together have grossed a stellar $230 million, Orion is struggling to keep the wolves from...
...Kevin Costner may have been the man of the hour at last week's Academy Awards (his Dances with Wolves walked off with seven Oscars), but it was one of the evening's losers who provided the award season's biggest flap. Gerard Depardieu, who was nominated for Best Actor for Cyrano de Bergerac, was a no- show at the ceremony. Even so, he was at the center of a fire storm over comments about his wild days as a youth...