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...Malick would be the one directing seemingly every other male movie star in Hollywood in a big-scale World War II combat epic. The picture is The Thin Red Line, based on the James Jones novel about the battle of Guadalcanal. The cast includes George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Nick Nolte, Gary Oldman, Sean Penn, Bill Pullman and John Travolta. And they are only, with the exception of Penn, members of the supporting cast...
...boycott of Paramount Pictures TV shows because of their use of video paparazzi footage of him and his girlfriend. Alec Baldwin scuffled with a photographer who confronted his wife Kim Basinger and their newborn daughter as they came home from the hospital. Robert De Niro, Will Smith and Woody Harrelson have all fought with the shooters...
Best entrance: WOODY HARRELSON, who pulled up in a white stretch limo painted with naked women. He was accompanied by LARRY FLYNT, who had earlier been denied a ticket. Harrelson, resplendent in an Armani tuxedo made of hemp (although it looked like every other tux), got Flynt in. Flynt's glitter-encrusted tux, meanwhile, didn't look like anyone else...
Nominees: Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire; Ralph Fiennes, The English Patient; Woody Harrelson, The People vs. Larry Flynt; Geoffrey Rush, Shine; Billy Bob Thornton, Sling Blade...
Again, two names can be shelved quickly. Harrelson is still to be considered a TV actor, and even supporters of his controversial film are more likely to rally around its director than its star. As for Fiennes, The English Patient has enough chances in other categories that it doesn't need a win here. Cruise's nomination is richly deserved, but I suspect that after two $100 million hits in a year (continuing a streak of five), a Golden Globe and a $20 million salary, Hollywood will decide he's been rewarded enough...