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...take a look at the fall fashions in movie directors' egos. Quentin Tarantino shows up in his own film, Pulp Fiction, and has everybody talk like him -- which is fine, since he's a great talker. Wes Craven, director of A Nightmare on Elm Street, takes himself very seriously now, so he calls his new picture Wes Craven's New Nightmare, and it is the ultimate in self-reverential cinema...
...resignation on Aug. 9, 1974, has been comparatively ignored. For one thing, Nixon nostalgia was pretty much used up on his death last April. For another, the Watergate scandal that brought down the Nixon presidency doesn't offer much in the way of warm memories. It represents a craven abuse of power, a breakdown of our system of government so appalling that most people would just as soon forget it. Indeed, judging by the Nixon eulogies, many of them have forgotten it. Significantly, it is not an American network but the British Broadcasting Corp. that has taken on the task...
When last we dropped by Melrose Place, in the summer of 1992, the show was brand new but already looked tarnished: it was a craven spin-off of Beverly Hills, 90210, set in an L.A. apartment complex, where all the people were beautiful and all the plots recycled from daytime soap operas. After a slow start in the ratings, however, Melrose Place has become perhaps the hottest show on TV. College-age fans have made it a weekly viewing ritual; magazines do cover stories on its stars; the Fox network is already gearing up a spin...
...have such faith in them this year," Craven says. "I haven't even bought a class ring yet--I'm hoping we'll have one provided by the NCAA...
...beginning of Day-Lewis' adult work in films was a bit part in the 1982 Gandhi. Soon he was in the South Seas shooting The Bounty, where he skulks and sulks handsomely as the craven first mate of Anthony Hopkins' Captain Bligh. It was the first of many roles in which he cast himself against heroic type. Believing that acting was a nonstop education in the spectrum of personality, he went for characters at odds with his own: the cynical surgeon in The Unbearable Lightness of Being, a wimpy art appraiser in Stars and Bars, a missionary dentist in Eversmile...