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...love with movies, for Geisha revives the sweeping spirit both of old-fashioned, mature film romance and of a day when Hollywood believed it could tell stories of any country or culture. Purists may complain that the three main geishas are played by Chinese women speaking English. But anyone familiar with current Chinese and Japanese films will tell you that one country is rich in top actresses and the other isn't. Besides, says Marshall, "I cast for the role, period...
...Boldest Attempt at Social Enlightenment Broadway became the Gay White Way, as shows with homosexual and AIDS themes (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Angels in America) won top honors at the Tonys and reaped a box-office bonanza. Theater is facing up to what Hollywood, until Philadelphia, has mostly ignored...
...World's Most Powerful Man Oh, maybe it's the President of the U.S., but even Bill Clinton takes orders from supermogul Michael Ovitz, whose Creative Artists Agency represents the major Hollywood talent, creates new Coke ads, advises studio chiefs -- and arranges the guest list for Clinton's star-struck visits to Hollywood...
...President Kennedy by Richard Reeves. We knew he was no saint. Now we have 800 carefully researched pages to tell us that J.F.K. was more Hollywood than Harvard, a gifted politician who relied on his charm rather than deep understanding and conviction. He was often ''careless and dangerously disorganized.'' The image of vigor was also an illusion: hormone shots compensated for failing adrenal glands and amphetamines perked him up. Reeves' dose of reality is a needed antidote to the cloying hagiographies that have marked the 30th anniversary of J.F.K.'s death...
...films, Edward Scissorhands) dreamed up this stop-motion fable about a Halloween ghoul who wants to play Santa Claus. Directed by Henry Selick, Nightmare is Disney's weirdest cartoon ever: chilly, rollicking, endlessly inventive. And it's animated by Danny Elfman's magical-spookical score. Is this the first Hollywood musical to set every one of its 10 songs in a minor...