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...have to ask, you haven't seen The Office, the British comedy airing on the cable channel BBC America. An absurdist mockumentary, The Office is a critical and popular smash in Britain. And with its second season premiering in the U.S. this month, it has claimed a cult following and turned Brent, played by British actor Ricky Gervais, into a hit with the media cognoscenti. A couple of weeks ago, in New York City, Gervais was interviewed on TV by a flattering David Letterman and afterward headed downtown to a screening of the show and a Q. and A. with...
...DIED. ELLIOTT SMITH, 34, folk rocker known for spare, moody songs about depression, turmoil and lost love; from an apparently self-inflicted stabbing; in Los Angeles. Smith recorded five CDs, which impressed critics and inspired a cult following. In 1998 he won an Oscar nomination for Miss Misery, one of five songs he wrote for the film Good Will Hunting...
...itemize the guest shots by the old films' icons (Sonny Chiba, Gordon Liu) and parse the stunt direction by Hong Kong master Yuen Wo-ping. They will speculate that Ishii, the name of the gang boss played with silky gravity by Lucy Liu, is Tarantino's nod to two cult directors: Teruo Ishii, who did some prime yakuza films in the '60s and made the Joy of Torture sadomasterpieces, and Takashi Ishii, whose girl-on-a-revenge-tear Black Angel films were released...
DIED. FRED TUTTLE, 84, Vermont dairy farmer turned cult movie star turned U.S. Senate candidate; of a heart attack; in Tunbridge, Vt. He adopted the farmer-candidate role as a publicity stunt after making the satirical 1996 film Man with a Plan. Tuttle won the G.O.P. nomination in the '98 race, then lost to Patrick Leahy...
...APPROVED. THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, for viewing, nearly 30 years after its U.S. debut; in Singapore. Censors had banned the camp 1975 cult film, a musical spoof with Tim Curry starring as a transvestite space alien, but cleared it for screening at an outdoor Halloween event, the Straits Times reported. An organizer of the showing told the newspaper that censors had objected to the movie's depiction of "kinky sexual practices...