Word: helene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reported by Helen Gibson and Barry Hillenbrand/London
...PLAYERS] Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear; dir. Jim Brooks...
REVEALED. The identity of HELEN CATHCART, elusive royal biographer; following the death of her loyal assistant HAROLD ALBERT; in Midhurst, England. Cathcart, it turns out, was really Albert--clothed in literary drag to woo his predominantly female readership. Albert educated himself by reading, escaping a Dickensian childhood--absent father, reviled stepfather--to write Her Majesty, Prince Charles and other genteel accounts of royal life...
...Hillary Clinton has turned 50. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. HELEN KLECKNER Conshohocken...
...Brooks is but one painful example of talent going to waste: it's another case of good actors trying their damnedest with bad lines. Kyra Sedgwick, James Spader, Albert Brooks and Helen Mirren are all fine, subtle performers; here, they are relegated to stale, two-dimensional stereo-types. Lumet may as well have subtitles put in key scenes: "This man is evil, because all he cares about is money. This man is good, because he really cares about making people better...