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Other events scheduled this week include panel discussions, several plays and a $125 per plate benefit dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston on Thursday honoring Richard Gere and Mary Fisher...
Ever wonder why celebrities are more famous than other people? It's because they ooze creativity. For example, not only have MILES DAVIS, TONY BENNETT, RICHARD GERE and DAVID BYRNE elbowed themselves room at fame's bar for their performing abilities; they're also gifted visual artists. Indeed, they must be gifted, because their handiwork isn't cheap. Gere's work, currently on display in a Manhattan art gallery, sells for $12,500 a portfolio (all proceeds to charity), and some of the late Davis' pieces are expected to fetch up to $100,000 when they go on sale...
Most stars prefer to summer in places other than Moscow, so a bona fide celebrity gets noticed. And Richard Gere has been noticed ducking out early from screenings at the film festival he's attending, kissing a woman called "Masha" onstage at the festival's opening, and getting a police citation for fishing illegally...
...RICHARD GERE'S LANCELOT IS A cheeky existentialist. Julia Ormond's Guinevere is all up-to-date feminist spunk. Sean Connery's King Arthur is a leader for the Clinton era, well-meaning, essentially temporizing, as he impotently watches a great dream dwindle...
...However, Gere's portrayal does flesh out the character of Sir Lancelot. This is not an easy task, since traditional Lancelots tend toward a dull, self assured stock hero, with a limited range of emotion. Gere's Lancelot does convince the audience that he really could rival Arthur for the Queen's affections. He may not have the commanding voice and imposing presence of Connery's Arthur, but he risks life and limb for Guinevere on several occasions, and isn't afraid to grunt and sweat while doing...