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...that "a verbal agreement isn't worth the paper it's written on." Last week a Los Angeles jury found differently. It ruled that actress Kim Basinger (912 Weeks, Batman) had breached an oral contract when she backed out of a commitment to star in the film Boxing Helena, and ordered her to pay $8.9 million in damages to the producers, Main Line Pictures...
...also encountered situations like this before: a brutal serial killer is out there stalking young women -- in this case, blind young women -- and baffled law-enforcement officials are in denial. No, the latest disappearance could not possibly represent his seventh depredation. No way could Helena (Uma Thurman), who, although blind, is a witness in the case, be his next target...
...treats the romance that grows between Berlin and Helena the same way. They edge toward connection tentatively, in full but unspoken awareness of the difficulties of their relationship. Nor is the suspicion of mad and more deadly passions visited upon either of them in the manner of Fatal Attraction or Basic Instinct. Evil is what it is supposed to be in fictions of this kind, an outsider, and the business of the narrative is to restore order in the community that evil has disordered. In other words, Jennifer 8 is adult entertainment in the best, traditional sense of the term...
Most magically, there was a glorious children's theater program at the Hudson Guild, funded by Helena Rubenstein. By age eight, the not-yet Whoopi was hooked. "I could be a princess, a teapot ((she laughs at the memory)), a rabbit, anything. And in a way, it's been children's theater ever since. I've only recently begun believing that I've grown up, and acting is what...
HOWARDS END. E.M. Forster's novel of property and prejudice in Edwardian England is voluptuously rendered by director James Ivory and handsomely peopled by Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Hopkins. See it to savor the glory that England once was -- and that movies, all too rarely...