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MOVIES: Part comedy, part thriller, Collateral is chilly and seductive; Joan Allen takes charge...
...womanhood is a continuum, with Ruth Bader Ginsburg on one end and Jessica Simpson on the other, Joan Allen occupies a sparsely populated middle position: the dignified babe. It's a precarious perch, and not just because it seems such an oxymoron. It's dangerous, at least for an actress, because Hollywood doesn't know what to do with you. Or rather it knows exactly what to do with you: you play the wife. The nice but uptight wife...
...minutes], and when I ask you where we stand, I had better be impressed," she tells one of her flunkies. But she brings a touch of heart to her hypercompetence. She's not vulnerable, but neither is she unassailable. "We needed a strong, precise antagonist," says producer Frank Marshall. "Joan brings that. But she brings compassion...
...Lourdes, France. Her job has been (partly) to get Maggie Smith and Kathy Bates to sign on. "I've never been on the phone so much," she says. "We're behind on preproduction." With that, two movies to promote and a daughter to care for, what Joan Allen really needs is a wife...
...would like to know more about them and their whole philosophies,” says audience member Joan Mullen as she reenters the theater lobby...