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...diva Carlotta. Although Phantom has kept salaries low by casting virtual unknowns, its $80 million budget puts it between Alien vs. Predator and The Incredibles. An ensemble of 100-plus sings and dances through Schumacher's enormous, immaculately designed soundstages. In addition to the roof set, where stone gargoyles gaze down malevolently, there's the Phantom's Lair - a dark catacomb where the deformed genius composes on his grand piano to the steady accompaniment of water dripping into a stagnant, green pond. The space, illuminated by hundreds of candles, was so humid that Butler compares it to an enormous microwave...
Everyone’s heard about feng shui. “Chromotherapy” follows the same principle, but instead of furniture placement, this kind uses colors to influence moods. White in particular is purported to relieve SAD—so break out your white sweaters or just gaze on some of that ubiquitous snow. Unlike lamps, snow is free...
...scene, Affleck playfully animates an animal cracker “crawling” across Tyler’s exposed mid-section to an undisclosed location. But we’ve all seen Child’s Play. Bay deftly blankets the sequence with attractive, flirtatious cinematography, but the sinister gaze of the animal cracker rules the mise-en-scene. The suggestion that the seemingly benign cracker could come alive and sell the two actors into slavery to Jerry Bruckheimer makes this brief romantic interlude truly terrifying...
DIED. JANET LEIGH, 77, coolly seductive Hollywood star, who earned immortality as the cinema's prime slasher victim in Hitchcock's Psycho; of vasculitis; in Beverly Hills, Calif. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert and sexy as any in movies. It bored into Frank Sinatra's frazzled psyche in The Manchurian Candidate; mixed fear and fire as a captive in Orson Welles' Touch of Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (a model doubled her in some shots...
...dozen roadies and a few members of his E Street Band were silently gathered around a TV. "How we doin'?," he asked, pointing to the screen. There was no response. Next he tried a few inquisitive gestures. Thumbs up? Way up? Down? No one shifted his or her gaze. Finally, smiling wryly in recognition of his relative unimportance, Springsteen pulled up a chair and watched with the others...