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Unanswered questions about the Kennedy assassination have nagged the nation for nearly 28 years, rousing emotions, inciting speculation, provoking arguments. It was probably inevitable that Hollywood would step into this minefield sooner or later -- and probably inevitable that the man leading the charge would be Oliver Stone, filmdom's most flamboyant interpreter of the 1960s (Platoon, The Doors, Born on the Fourth of July...
...Filmdom's establishment has good reason to be envious, since independents are stealing the most prestigious scenes. When the Academy Awards ceremony takes place next week, the spotlight will shine on two independently produced films, Platoon and A Room with a View, which led the nominations with eight apiece. Last year the top acting Oscars went to A Trip to Bountiful and Kiss of the Spider Woman; both were the work of an independent studio, Island Pictures. The major studios left an opening for such films by sticking too long with expensive formulas calling for car chases, special effects...
OCCASIONALLY, IN CONTEMPORARY filmdom, a questionably attractive character can be made more appealing by the judicous inclusion of a 5 o'clock shadow. Take, for instance, the Clint Eastwood characters in Dirty Harry. Or look at Mel Gibson in The Year of Living Dangerously, who although certainly not at all unattractive was unquestionably transformed and transubstantiated for the better by the dark smudge under his lips...
...contemporary filmdom, happy endings come few and far between. Thus the promise of one--apparent from the film's start--should attract those alienated by the present trend of realistic cinema. Yet this Room with a View gives its audience more than a string of paired couples and crescending music at the close. An insightful study of character and society, this version of the Forster classic is not to be missed...
...public curiosity while making no honest effort to answer that basic question; it was left to fan magazines to contrive tales that supposedly revealed what the top players were in private life. But no more. Lately, the outpouring of tell-all and tell-a-lot books by and about filmdom's ranking personalities has grown into a torrent...