Word: laura
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peace Prize winner for her nonviolent resistance against the ruling junta, is surely worth a movie. But in Hollywood the problems of one little country--or one big country with little brown people--don't amount to a hill of unsold scripts. The Burmese must have a Caucasian mediator, Laura, whose sufferings illuminate those of the locals...
...Laura Bowman seems in a perpetual Burma daze. In 1988 Laura (Patricia Arquette), the heroine of Beyond Rangoon, is with a group of tourists who want to get out of Burma before the thugs who run the place start killing everyone. But Laura has not recovered from a personal trauma back home, and when her group leaves she just...stays there. It's a pretty region--like the Mekong Delta in the mid-'60s. Now if only she can find an escort. Why, here's an amiable native (U Aung Ko). "Hello," he says, in effect, "I'm an illegal...
Cast at the last minute (after Meg Ryan left to make another American-twit-abroad epic, French Kiss), Arquette can do little but whine and pine in an impossible role. And the film simply forfeits belief with its notion that Laura, who stumbles through Burma like a girl in a monster movie after she's seen the giant ants, is a physician. She hardly seems smart enough to be a patient...
...signed book contracts and chatted on Larry King Live with abandon. But one person whose self-image may be right on target is former detective Mark Fuhrman. "I am the most important witness in the trial of the century," Fuhrman purportedly said during a tape-recorded conversation with screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny. "If I go down, their case goes...
...bidding to begin at $250,000-more than they were willing to pay. McKinny will not comment, but a friend, her boss Sam Grogg, dean of the School of Filmmaking at the North Carolina School of the Arts, cannot believe she has any hidden agenda, financial or otherwise. "Laura is a person who looks for the truth," he says. "For anybody to think she's trying to leverage this, they couldn't be more wrong." Still, even Grogg says, "I'm sure she's keeping a journal...