Word: forrestal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bandied about in the press. Jackson's megadeal might, like her stage show, be partly smoke and mirrors. Record contracts, like movie deals, are often larded with clauses and subclauses that make interpreting the value of a deal a brain-wilting affair, as mystifying as the recent reports that Forrest Gump hasn't turned a profit. "When you read the fine print, you find lots of changes," says record-industry attorney Don Engel. "Some of these contracts are 80 to 100 pages. There are various ways a record company makes a $60 million deal worth $20 million or $30 million...
...outrageous," says Lane, no stranger to flamboyance. "But there was instant chemistry. I think he felt like I was a kindred spirit." Lane's reaction to being offered the career-making role was aptly Williamsian. When Nichols told him he wanted to talk about a movie, Lane said, "Forrest Gump? I loved it! Not liked--LOVED!!" Nichols gave him the part the next morning...
...same coin. It comes as no surprise that emotionally well-adjusted people tend to have high test scores or that those with intelligence and problem-solving ability have a high EQ. The growing disdain for test scores is a dangerous trend. Is crying at the end of Forrest Gump more valuable to society than knowing when World War I occurred? Arguments based on emotion have resulted in the shrill and hysterical nature of discourse in the U.S. JOE HARDY Memphis, Tennessee...
Eight million dollars later, Evans has bought a new house in London and temporarily abandoned his film career. (Eric Roth, the screenwriter of Forrest Gump, will write the movie adaptation of his book.) Next year Evans will start a second novel, yet there's still a trace of resentment at the drubbing his first one took from reviewers. "The money," he says, "is blinding critics to the story." But apparently not readers...
...Freeman's virtuosity is no surprise. He has been cheated out of at least two Academy Awards (for "Driving Miss Daisy" and "The Shawshank Redemption"), both times losing to sentimental favorites: actors playing physically or mentally disabled characters (Daniel Day-Lewis in "My Left Foot" and Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump"). He will hopefully be nominated again for "Seven," but with his luck someone will release "Rain Man II" at Christmas and again deny him his due. Freeman's Detective Sommerset does not just pay lip service to being burned-out. His spirit is so heavy we can almost feel...