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...What's a war for, if not to hold on to what we love?" asks secretary Linda Voss (Melanie Griffith), as she gazes soulfully into the eyes of her boss and lover, World War II spy Ed Leland (Michael Douglas...
Like the 1940s movie heroines that preceded her, Griffith's character is smart, beautiful, and brave. After she volunteers to replace a downed U.S. agent in war-torn Germany, she has to depend on her ability to speak German, the invaluable training she's learned from cloak and dagger maneuvers in her favorite movies, and, in the inevitable pinch, her lover...
...conceived as a haven for fine-arts programming, now runs oldies , like The Avengers and Mrs. Columbo. Ted Turner's cable operation may attract a lot of attention with MGM movie blockbusters and environmental specials, but its most dependable ratings grabber is that unglamorous, uncolorized war- horse, The Andy Griffith Show...
...earlier coarsened John Updike's novel The Witches of Eastwick, were the wrong gents to midwife Wolfe's book. So was De Palma, whose vision is all muscle, no finesse. Tom Hanks lacked the slick stature of Wall Street wizard Sherman McCoy (Wolfe wanted Chevy Chase). Melanie Griffith was no slinky Circe (De Palma wanted Uma Thurman), and Bruce Willis was hardly a desiccated Brit (John Cleese said no thanks). Finally, for reasons of ethnic balance, Morgan Freeman replaced Alan Arkin as a righteous judge, who in the book was a Jew. The novel they said couldn't be filmed...
...Devil's Candy is full of cruel Hollywood wit, and Griffith is a particular butt of the bitch-and-moan. Looking at screen tests that showed bags under her eyes, co-producer Fred Caruso snapped, "Use Preparation H. That'll shrink 'em." Months later when Griffith appeared on the set seemingly with pontoon implants in her breasts, the team sighed again. No one, evidently, suggested Preparation...