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...looked for contemporary types on which to build the characters. Jack was the dreamer, the creative type. For Little Red I wanted a compulsive over-eater. The hardest was Cinderella because she is so boring. I kept thinking Nancy Reagan...Nancy Reagan. The Baker and His Wife are a couple from Brooklyn... The Princes, definitely womanizers...
...next 40 years. Matt Dillon is perfecting a comic shagginess. Funny Jeremy Piven steals a scene at a check-out counter. The other actors in SINGLES are stuck with playing cliches -- twentynothings. They mate, they muse, they inhabit soap-opera plots. Meet urban planner Campbell Scott ("a realist slash dreamer"), Greenpeacenik Kyra Sedgwick ("This whole decade is going to have to be about cleaning up"), maitre d' Jim True ("I live my life like a French movie"). Writer-director Cameron Crowe's movie lives like too many others. Singles may aspire to be a Big Chill from Seattle...
...beyond Bush the dreamer and Bush the everyday American, the main image the president tried to convey with his fiery voice and angry tone, was of Bush the fighter...
...feel that this appeal of mine is finding a positive echo, but a very indirect one. Here, as in every democracy, we witness all the aspirations, ambitions, battles and hunger for power. My position seems to be the one of a dreamer who mumbles something about ideals, completely untouched by real life, whereas politics takes a different course. But this is a very banal view. In reality it seems to me that my constant repetition of certain things planted seeds. I do see this right now, in the moment when my federal presidency is over. From various sides I seem...
...though, as limned in Rudolph Grey's new biography, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (published by the aptly named Feral House), there is a lot of American tragedy. For Wood carried a triple burden: he was a transvestite, an alcoholic and a dreamer. As a Marine during World War II, he made beach landings wearing bra and panties under his uniform. Demobbed, he played a half man-half woman in a carnival before arriving in Hollywood to satisfy his twin obsessions: filmmaking and angora sweaters. The confessional Glen or Glenda, in which...