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...there's a volatile, tender symbiosis in the tandem of Flynt (Woody Harrelson) and his bisexual stripper drug-addict wife Althea (Courtney Love). They goad, torture and love each other, to the limit. Casting the Lady Cobain was not merely an art-imitates-death stunt; she's a real actress, rangy and sympathetic, with an instinct for just the right dose of excess. Love and Harrelson make The People vs. Larry Flynt a case well worth studying. --By Richard Corliss...
...hell for the right to incarnate, in one of the era's most vivid musical dramas, a woman whose career and notoriety mirror her own: model for steamy photos, singer on the radio, movie actress of disputed pedigree, sexual adventurer. In both these stars one can see the great goad of ambition, the ability to enthrall and outrage. So there's tabloid poetry in the fact that--50 years after Juan Peron's election as President of Argentina, 20 years after the release of the original album of the musical, and after numerous false starts of film projects that...
...Moscow and encountered in Dyachenko a shy, intelligent and idealistic young woman who for some time recoiled at even the most mild American-style dirty trick. "But it wouldn't be fair," Gorton recalls her saying when he advised that Zyuganov be trailed by heckling "truth squads" designed to goad him into losing his temper. At their first meeting across a long table covered in green felt, Dyachenko confided, "I don't know this business. I don't know what to ask." For a few weeks, says Gorton, "the task was simple education, Campaigning 101, stuff like the proper uses...
This, at least, is the impression a viewer gets after seeing the trailers--the two-minute previews--for this summer's major-studio films. For months these promos have clogged theaters, an early goad to the moviegoers' want-see. When a trailer works, it can give its film the hint of blockbuster. The Independence Day spot has done that and more. Its shots of citizens staring up at an ominous spacecraft became famous so quickly that it inspired a rival promo: a spaceship lands and disgorges the Brady Bunch for A Very Brady Sequel...
MARCIA CLARK DISLIKES JUDGE LANCE Ito. She felt she had to pretend to play a deferential, submissive female role with him. According to one source, the judge bears no fondness for Clark either. But he was also a goad to the defense lawyers, who had to trek into Ito's chambers to see to what they called his "petty needs." Says defense attorney Peter Neufeld: "I was very disappointed with Judge Ito, the fact that he was so concerned with his status as a celebrity, his willingness to entertain personalities in chambers, to show the lawyers little videotapes of skits...