Word: goldblum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gestation must have weighed like a rock on the filmmakers' impulse to soar. Artistic care gives way to religious caution, and the picture sometimes looks starched, stodgy. Except for the When You Believe anthem, Stephen Schwartz's tunes mostly bring not buoyancy but ballast to the proceedings. While Jeff Goldblum is good as a fretful Aaron, the rest of an exemplary vocal cast (Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Patrick Stewart) can't add much shading or power. Steve Martin is here for muted comic relief, but don't expect to hear him sing King Tut. Any sort of irreverence would...
Eddie Murphy--bald, blissful and guileless--is top-billed in this clever, derivative comedy (think The Truman Show with lower ratings) about a wandering shaman who stumbles into fame on a home shopping network. But the real star is Jeff Goldblum as the network's frazzled manager. With his lupine smile and fake-intimate voice, he pushes a line of patter that is just a bit too slick to pass for charm. And when his life starts crumbling, you can almost smell his comic flop sweat through the screen. Tom Schulman's script is smart about the media's ability...
...Foreman fight; you'd rather see him in his prime. So grab (as if CP had to tell you this one) The Right Stuff (1983). This way, you get Ed Harris in John Glenn's prime; he's a better actor. The cast is stacked (down to Jeff Goldblum and Harry Shearer in small parts), the film is luxuriantly long, and darn it if it don't make you want to finally learn how to fold the flag just right. But after seeing Annie Glenn kick LBJ out of her house, CP can only hope that this time, Bill Clinton...
Vince Vaughn, who co-stars alongside Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, is so money. Last year, Vaughn, a struggling actor, was a lead in the low-budget Swingers, a Gen-X comedy about latter-day lounge lizards bantering incessantly in superhip lingo--kinda like this, baby. In one scene, Vaughn's character picks up a woman in a bar while the theme from Jaws plays in the background; Steven Spielberg saw it, and the rest is show-biz history. Says Vaughn: "I do this one small movie...
...last September, like a Spielberg movie kid back home after an encounter with aliens, pirates or the wartime Japanese, he walked into the woods of Eureka, Calif., to begin shooting The Lost World. "A chortle came out of me when I saw him that first day," says Jeff Goldblum, who reprises his role as mathematician Ian Malcolm. "He said he was nervous because he hadn't directed in a while, but he fell right into it. He was massively prepared, brimming with confidence--a creative, improvisatory force on the set, thrilled and confused about making stuff up right there...