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Designed by Wallace K. Harrison and Max Abramovitz in 1966, Hilles is a modern cubist conglomeration sitting on a raised concrete platform where blocks of concrete and glass are assembled around a four-sided open courtyard strewn with hemispherical flowerpots, benches and a reflecting pool, all made out of concrete. Walking across an open terrace, up the steps onto the platform and under a wide, low-ceiling tunnel gives way to the space which is walled in by sheets of glass and ringed by two sets of balconies at the second and fourth floors. It is an austere, angular setting...
...love lost. Pleasanter still, it provides a career-defining role for its all-American star, Andie MacDowell, who's been nibbling at the edges of moviegoers' attention for 20 years and now gets to stand center screen, tall and gorgeous. Combined with her stalwart turn in Elie Chouraqui's Harrison's Flowers, as a journalist searching hell-on-earth Bosnia for her photographer husband, Crush proves that the South Carolinian beauty has completed her trek from actress-model to model actress...
Whether as Comedy Andie here or Tragedy Andie in Harrison's Flowers, MacDowell always rewards watching. Her long, lovely face is both active and pensive; it often seems torn between remembered joy and anticipated anguish. She also has the gift of cuing a change in a film's mood by letting the blood drain from her face...
...Susan Harrison, who was indeed 19 when the movie was shot - and who slipped until anonymity until two years ago, when her daughter Darva Conger married a lummox on a TV millionaire show - carries the burden as smartly as she wears that mink. She stands up to Lancaster and Curtis, fully justifying Mackendrick's belief that the film, finally, is about Susie; in the last shot, when she walks out into the first morning sun we've seen, we can believe that J.J. the vampire has lost some of his power. Harrison helps make Susie one of the great crippled...
...Issue ? Topics include George Harrison and the Beatles, cloning and the U.S. Ski Team