Word: houston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience had a boxoffice ceiling of $40 million. Then came Fox's Waiting to Exhale, which was made for a relatively frugal $17 million and took in $65 million. But Sherak says the film didn't attract white audiences despite a hit sound-track album and the presence of Houston, who had already proved herself a box-office draw opposite Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard. "We tried to sell the story of four friends, not looking at color," Sherak remembers of the Waiting to Exhale marketing campaign. "But it didn't cross over. [Whites] felt like it was made...
Disney studio chairman Joe Roth says he's betting that a family-friendly Christmas movie with two hugely popular stars, Houston's singing and Penny Marshall (Big, A League of Their Own) behind the camera will transcend color. "The biggest movies of all time have always defied conventional wisdom," he argues. Houston finds it discouraging that race is still an issue. "What's so alien about us?" she asks. "I don't understand why there's such a big thing about all-black casts. I've seen movies with all-white casts...It's a movie. Either you like...
...professional soldiers. This "do kiss, do tell" situation threatens order and cohesion in the ranks! I urge you, President Clinton, don't take any chances as regards military effectiveness. Enact a policy barring all heterosexual men from the military, and allow only women and gays to serve. RICH WILSON Houston...
...angels looked this good and dressed this baaad, it would be as hard to get into heaven as into an all-star rap concert. Denzel Washington, an angel on loan to a fretful preacher (Courtney B. Vance) and his pretty wife (Whitney Houston), is really here to sell the miracle of star quality. In his gorgeous silver three-piece suit, Washington makes niceness sexy. His fellow teachers in this charm-school film are Houston, with her 60 beautiful teeth; old pro Jenifer Lewis as the requisite sassy grandma and, in the Grinch role, Gregory Hines, his magnificently phony smile romanticizing...
When she's not wading through this noble sludge, Houston puts on a fine show. Lord knows she has the pipes, leading the choir or crooning a galvanic I Believe in You and Me. The pity is that Marshall believed less in movie glamour and more in plodding plot...