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Geller eventually worked out a deal with theDuncan yo-yo company to be the distributor of theyo-yo in Israel. He sold about 1,000 and started amini craze at his yeshiva...
...when the actress proposed a script about a girl who can't sing (like Leigh) and her sister, who has a fabulous voice (as both of Leigh's do), Turner happily complied. Leigh stars in the resulting Georgia, which generated a buzz at Cannes but lacks an American distributor. The constantly risk-taking actress says she liked her tortured character for her ability "to be very naked and very out there." And hey-one Seattle scene was shot in the former apartment of Kurt Cobain's ex-drug dealer...
...competition was thick even before Kids was screened. That director Larry Clark's film still commanded the spotlight was a tribute to its American distributor, Miramax films, and its cunning boss, hype master Harvey Weinstein, who chose to see the film as a crusade for condom use. "Very few films have the ability to change the way people act," he says. "Hopefully this one will shock parents into doing something to help their children...
...aggravation; last week it told Miramax that the studio could not distribute Kids, a scalding and graphic film about an HIV-positive teen. If Kids receives a proscriptive nc-17 rating, Miramax may be obliged to sell the film (with its hefty $3.5 million price tag) to another distributor...
...there was little surprise last week when the Academy Award went to Jessica Lange for her role as a blowsy Army wife in Blue Sky--a film made four years ago, shelved when its distributor went bankrupt, then released last year to a paltry $2.4 million box-office take. The award was a tribute not just to Lange, a six-time nominee and a winner as Supporting Actress in 1983 for Tootsie, but to the endangered species of women's movies...