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...FAVORITE JOHN GRISHAM NOVEL: doesn't read Grisham but recently enjoyed Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis by Howell Raines...
...FAVORITE JOHN GRISHAM NOVEL: no comment...
...that pretty much completes the short list of pleasures afforded by writer-director Alan Pakula's adaptation of John Grisham's gazillion-copy best seller. Mostly this is a movie about people getting in and out of cars, which either do or do not blow up when they turn on the ignition. They also talk on the phone quite a bit, usually in darkly lighted rooms, to callers who are not entirely forthcoming in their messages. From time to time, they are chased by nameless people who are boringly expert at dealing out sudden death...
...adaptation, earlier this year, of Grisham's The Firm eventually took Tom Cruise's running man into the presence of his chief tormentors. But Roberts' running woman gets to confront only a few members of the supporting cast, all of whom -- Culp aside -- are drably written and impossible even for actors as good as Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow and John Heard to sink a fang into. And we never get to see, even in the shadows that are a Pakula specialty, Mr. Big -- who has ordered the assassination of two Supreme Court Justices...
...soon-to-be-released, now-being-edited "Natural Born Killers," also directed and written by Oliver Stone. The film is a satire about "a young pair of serial killers struggling to get a start in life." Later projects include starring in the film adaptation of the John Grisham bestseller The Client and directing the movie version of Elmer Kelton's novel The Good Old Boys, a turn of the century tale set in West Texas. Jones seems very enthused about having also won the movie role of baseball legend Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Ironically, with so much ahead of him, Jones...