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...late middle age. So is Absolute Power, the movie that fleshes out this hunk of granite. Many of its leading actors were born before the Rushmore carvings were completed in 1941. Eastwood, directing himself as a cat burglar on his eighth or ninth life, is 66, as is Gene Hackman, who plays a sexually reckless U.S. President. E.G. Marshall, in the role of the President's adviser, is 86 and counting. The plot is a doomsday version of Bill Clinton's Paula Jones problem, but the theme is impending mortality--settling scores before time...
...film version, directed by James Foley (At Close Range), Gene Hackman plays Sam as a scrawny, withered rooster, with tobacco stains on his teeth and hatred of blacks and Jews in his heart. He has an alcoholic daughter (a skeletal Faye Dunaway) and a grandson, Adam (chipper Chris O'Donnell), determined to save Sam from state-sanctioned murder. This makes for high, disjointed drama--a shotgun marriage of Method theatrics and TV-movie heart tugging...
Fourteen years ago, Landon formed a support group in Hollywood called LADIES--Life After Divorce Is Eventually Sane--which has helped the exes of Gene Hackman, Leonard Nimoy and Jerry Lewis, among others, survive a breakup. "The public thinks that money makes it different for us," says Landon, "but I've seen firsthand first wives of Oscar winners who moved from mansions to little apartments"--or even, for a while, to their cars...
...hard to figure out, however, who the source of his troubles is. The minute Gene Hackman appears as world-class physician Lawrence Myrick, oozing menacing bonhomie, a quality this splendid actor has virtually patented, we have our suspicions. It's the extent and passion of the conspiracy he has mounted to protect his research that is surprising and scary. That air of earnest befuddlement Grant has deployed to such good comic effect in the past serves him--and us--very well in this very different context. He's willowy and vulnerable in a way we no longer expect to find...
...play in which he received quite good notices. In 1978 came the movie Superman; he initially thought the role so silly, so beneath theater, that he almost skipped the tryout. Characteristically, he wanted to work hard to do the part right. On the set he approached the veteran Gene Hackman, who was playing Superman's comic-villain archenemy, and asked if he wanted to rehearse. "Not really," said Hackman. Reeve asked, "Mr. Hackman, what was it that attracted you to the role of Lex Luthor?" Hackman answered, "You mean besides the $2 million...