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Redstone has been especially concerned with the performance of Paramount Pictures, the glamorous centerpiece of Viacom's $10 billion acquisition of Paramount Communications in 1994. The studio has had a string of box-office disappointments lately--including Sabrina, Jade and A Vampire in Brooklyn--and Redstone complained that too many films were put into production with subpar scripts. The Viacom boss has been spending a growing amount of time in Hollywood, attending marketing meetings and consulting on details as small as what promotional knickknacks to send to video stores overseas to help push Paramount product...
...right, the subjects are often lurid and even bizarre. But there's no part of the entertainment spectacle, from Hard Copy to Jade, that doesn't trade in the lurid and bizarre. At least in the talk shows, the moral is always loud and clear: Respect yourself, listen to others, stop beating on your wife. In fact it's hard to see how The Bill Bennett Show, if there were to be such a thing, could deliver a more pointed sermon. Or would he prefer to see the feckless Susan, for example, tarred and feathered by the studio audience instead...
DAVID CARUSO Jade, his second shot at cinematic stardom, collapses, leaving him NYPD blue...
Esterhas' weak script in "Basic Instinct" was somewhat resucitated by the presence of Sharon Stone. "Jade" is not resucitated by anyone. Any movie that has Angie Everheart and Linda Fiorentino in it is of some interest on a purely visual level. However, any movie in which Angie Ever-heart gives the most believable and compelling performance has some-thing terribly wrong with it. But Chazz Palmintieri is a genuinely good actor, and when even he can't do any-thing with this movie, we know that the core must be rotten...
This movie evidently is supposed to be about a great many things: sex, power, trust, the corruption and perversion of the rich and powerful. Those themes (along with love and violence) are the most universal in any kind of art. Had "Jade" really tried to make some serious statement about there topics, it would almost certainly have failed. But it would have been much more interesting to watch than a mystery that we don't care to see solved which makes statements that we don't want to hear...