Word: jackal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Having experienced The Jackal (working title: Aging Hunks Shoot It Out), I wish to publicly retract that statement. Director Michael Caton-Jones, of Rob Roy fame (or ignominy, depending on how you see it), has created for us a confused jumble of bad accents, loud music, stale techno-babble and Richard Gere. The studio swears it's a remake of the 1973 thriller Day Of The Jackal, but this Jackal resembles neither its predecessor nor the Frederick Forsythe novel on which it was based, except that it contains an international terrorist known only as "The Jackal...
...plot of The Jackal may seem familiar (it's a remake of The Day of the Jackal), but the film will bring viewers at least one thing they've never seen before: BRUCE WILLIS as a bad guy. In fact, Willis will be seen in lots of new guises, including a fat-suit, blond and ponytail wigs, fake noses and geeky glasses. And not one of his trademark Die Hard "Yippee-ki-yays" in earshot. According to the director, even the actor seemed thrown by his villainous new persona. "It slightly confused him a couple of times," says Michael Caton...
...would be easy to make fun of First Wives but a mistake to miss it. Once you accept the fact that Frank Capra is dead and that Hollywood is remaking The Day of the Jackal in case the original was insufficiently bloody, First Wives is one of the best movies of a very long year. It's funny: "There are only three ages for women in Hollywood--Babe, District Attorney and Driving Miss Daisy," declares Goldie Hawn, who with her collagen-inflated lips is trying to stay in the first phase. It's touching: Diane Keaton is convincing...
...demanded and eventually got from the English publisher HarperCollins, U.K., an advance of nearly £500,000 (almost $800,000) for his latest novel. In the process, he tossed over his longtime British agent and friend, Pat Kavanagh, for a more aggressive U.S. representative, Andrew Wylie, called "the Jackal" by publishers and rivals because of his opportunistic business style...
Burned-Out Case: Carlos the Jackal is brought to justice...