Word: demy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ROGER HOWARTH certainly isn't the first soap star to leave a show to pursue a film career (ever hear of Laurence Fishburne or Demi Moore?) or because the plots were too dopey. But he may be one of the few who left for moral reasons. "I was hired to play Todd, the serial rapist and murderer," says the Emmy-winning Howarth of his role on One Life to Live, "and then I became Todd the erotically charged heir to $27.5 million." When the rapist maniac became a long lost son and his criminal tendency was transformed into something sexually...
...Stars are becoming their own producers--not just in vanity arrangements with the studios but with a welcome assertiveness that gets things done. "Winona Ryder, Jodie Foster, Sharon Stone, Michelle Pfeiffer, Demi Moore, Meg Ryan and some others are not only stars," says Joan Hyler, president of the 13,000-member group Women in Film. "They are beginning to control their own destinies." Silverstone is just 19, yet she has a $10 million, two-picture production deal at Columbia. And she is determined not to be battered or a bimbo. "I'm prepared to do anything...
...stats, however imposing, underplay the importance of these films to Hollywood's bottom line. Women are so eager to make movies close to their hearts that they agree to make them on the cheap. Demi Moore, for example, is being paid a burly $12 million to star in next year's Striptease. But as a producer, she got Now and Then made for the same $12 million. Little Women, with Sarandon and Ryder, took in $50 million at the U.S. wickets but cost only $18 million...
...students do not even know where on Brattle Street the theatre is, let alone seek it out to watch movies. Many do not know it is the only theatre in the Harvard Square area to show classics, reissues and art films. They eschew Barbara Stanwyck and Jimmy Stewart for Demi Moore and Jim Carrey--and most don't even know what they're missing...
Even nonreaders know that Hester Prynne (Demi Moore in the movie) was the first woman in literature with her own rating: A, for adultery. She had an affair with the colony's preacher (Gary Oldman) and, while enduring her public shame, fought off the pernitions of her long-lost husband Roger (Robert Duvall). But this plot doesn't kick in until about the 11th or 12th hour of the film. Director Roland Joffe dwells instead on the nude bodies of Moore (caressing herself) and Oldman (skinny-dipping) as Hester and the Rev fall in lust. And stay around for their...