Word: diaz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't say much [to Method Man]," said Kathia Diaz, 17. "I was just...
VERY BAD THINGS Starring Jon Favreau, Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz Directed by Peter Berg Polygram Films...
...turns wild: a call girl accidentally gets killed, a security guard gets murdered, the boys--led by Christian Slater, doing a nice, nasty turn spouting pop-psych Nietzscheanisms--get started on a cover-up. Guilt and panic soon lead to lethal wrangles, then to variously colorful comeuppances. Meantime, Cameron Diaz is sublimely screwy as the single-minded bride determined not to let anything--including the deadly mishaps that keep shrinking the wedding party--spoil her nuptials...
Within the chicly amoral terms Berg sets--and brutally enforces--Diaz is curiously believable. So is the way in which stunned calm (we're going to get away with this thing) and hysteria (no, we're not) alternate among the well-played accidental criminals. We do find points of identification with them. And heaven knows, some of us are fed up to the teeth with movies glossily restating humane sentiments. Finally, though, Berg's relentless, youthfully enthusiastic assault on conventional pieties grows tiresome. And we begin to choke on laughter that was from the outset pretty dubious...
Much like the cover artists for Harlequin romances, the folks at Vanity Fair are powerless to resist featuring a beautiful woman astride a powerful beast. In its 1998 Hall of Fame issue, the magazine and photographer Steven Meisel present CAMERON DIAZ as this year's official model turned actress, dubbing her "a Tweety Bird with sex appeal." Though her gilded cage no longer includes Matt Dillon, the actress can be seen with another thuggish gent later this month when she co-stars with Christian Slater in the black comedy Very Bad Things...