Word: keaton
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Have we learned nothing from William Shatner? Danny DeVito, Michael Keaton and Jennifer Love Hewitt have all earnestly recorded songs for the sound tracks of their new movies...
...Michael Keaton...
...saturnine-villain roles (Billy Bathgate, Murder One) that both fed and trapped him, had his eye on a story he had been mulling for years. The idea became The Impostors, an $8.3 million opus (Big Night cost $4 million) that Tucci describes as "a little Heidegger, a little Buster Keaton...
There's a wonderful scene in "Annie Hall" when Woody Allen's character, Alvy, is standing in line with Annie (played by Diane Keaton) to see a film. Behind the couple is an obnoxious pseudo-intellectual (who we later find out is a professor at Columbia) mindlessly nattering on and on about every topic imaginable. The professor's knowledge knows no bounds: we are subjected first to criticism of Federico Fellini's oeuvre, then to a savage diatribe against Samuel Beckett. Names are dropped with impunity, including that of media theorist Marshall McLuhan...
...Reds (1981). Warren Beatty's epic is very much a recollection of Gone With the Wind, and it shares the Selznick classic's main failing: It takes too long getting to the war. Diane Keaton, we are told, is radiant enough to ensnare Beatty's Jack Reed and Nicholson's Eugene O'Neill -- but it's a captivation the viewer somehow doesn't share. And aren't "The Witnesses" just an endless parade of wizened faces fleshing out a story we'd rather watch ourselves...