Word: demy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STRIPTEASE (June 28). It's not Showgirls, the trailer is at pains to tell you; it's Get Shorty: a slapsticky gangster comedy, but with plucky, bosomy single mom Demi Moore. And without Travolta. Burt Reynolds may steal scenes as a randy Congressman, but that's not why Columbia paid Moore $12.5 million for the film. Why do we get that sinking feeling...
...industry. Waiting to Exhale is about money, and Hollywood is a bottom-line town. That is why box-office receipts are kept track of so closely. When African-American talents such as Loretta Devine, Lela Rochon, director Forest Whitaker and author Terry McMillan become common household names like Madonna, Demi Moore, Ron Howard and Michael Crichton, then Hollywood will, I hope, produce more films that explore African-American life. Yes, ultimately some of these movies will be slick Hollywood trash. But only then will African Americans as a group have arrived--when we can create Hollywood "trash" that affects...
...rapidly escalating implausibility of this film begins mildly enough, when it asks us to believe that Annie Laird (Demi Moore), a struggling artist and devoted single mom, would cheerfully set aside her preoccupations to volunteer for jury duty. Anyone else in her circumstances would be out getting a doctor's note, but no, she's actually eager to take a few weeks off to help decide the fate of a Mafia boss accused of conspiring to commit murder...
What becomes a diva most? Part ownership of Planet Hollywood is good, but a Polaroid camera is better. DEMI MOORE has snapped a self-portrait (yes, that's her) and penned a piece for Details' Mondo Hollywood issue. Apparently, divadom isn't all it's cracked up to be. Moore complains of being thrown onto powdered cement, walking "small, repetitive distances in uncomfortable shoes" and standing around in a G-string with tissues stuffed up her nose. "I have even gone so far as to roll around in a semiclad state on piles of money and Michael Douglas," she says...
...Laurence Fishburne brings an outsider's dignity to the role of Shakespeare's noblest chump. Irene Jacob is a lovely, sallow Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh--looking bloated and rheumy, slithering snakelike on rooftops, whispering his venomous gossip as if it's his last confession--makes a fine Iago, a demi-devil working his cool wit to destroy those he might have loved...