Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatic planes of her wide-screen face, which looks like Diane Sawyer's pressed against a windshield. When her lips crack open into a wide, diagonal smile, some Mae West line seems ready to emerge. "Come up and see me sometime." And Frank Keller (Al Pacino), a good cop with no life, does just that. Though Helen is a suspect in the grisly murder case he is investigating, he can't wait to get to her. The feeling must be mutual: before making love to Frank, she strips off her red jacket with the urgency of a lifeguard en route...
This chameleonic actress has a lot going for her, starting with her eccentric good looks. "Taken apart, Ellen doesn't work," observes Martin Bregman, who produced Sea of Love. "But put it together, and you've got a stunning woman." Then she gives you Method intensity with treacherous glamour. As Sea's director, Harold Becker, notes, "Ellen is very real. She looks like she's lived, like she's earned her face." And her spurs. This is a ferociously bright, witty, serious actor who packs risk and surprise in every move. She will go bigger, badder, beyond. "So much...
...COUNTRY'S GOOD. The acerbic antimilitary play, named London's best last season, gets double exposure: the original Royal Court version is at the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto, while the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles offers a U.S. premiere...
SOME CAN WHISTLE by Larry McMurtry (Simon & Schuster; $19.95). Some of McMurtry's good books, like Terms of Endearment, have been turned into good movies. Alas, this novel, about a feckless millionaire TV writer discovering his daughter from a long-ago marriage, is not a good book. Wait for the inevitable screen adaptation...
...attracted to these ventures because of the opportunity to focus exclusively on the Latino community. Guillermo Martinez, a Cuban who was senior editor of the Miami Herald, left to join Univision, where he heads the news department. Univision anchorwoman and producer Teresa Rodriguez has turned down offers from Good Morning, America and two NBC affiliates, preferring to cover Hispanic America in depth...