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...exactly three shots in an indie movie. "Everything goes hilariously wrong," chuckles Corliss. The boom mike dips into the frame. The idiot movie star unaccountably thinks he's a creative artist -- "imagine Kato Kaelin mistaking himself for Dustin Hoffman." It's a funny film, acted with a deft, manic touch...
...movies. A workaholic in the English acting tradition, Grant has made 18 films in eight years, and part of the pleasure of following him has been to see a fellow with leading-man looks play so many variations on the upper-class twit. Last year, besides his suavely manic turn in Four Weddings, he was seen as the prim prelate in the Australian soft-core Sirens and as an hors d'oeuvre to a sexually voracious woman in Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon. Now three more Grant films are in the U.S. malls: he is the lead in Nine Months...
...died, they could find me," he says. Nearby, in two cramped rooms at the Budget No. 1 Motel, Robert Givens, 38, lives on welfare with his wife, six children, 11 cats, two pet lizards and a puppy. They were evicted from public housing after Givens, a manic-depressive, was accused of growing marijuana and brandishing a gun. "We're like the Brady Bunch, only different," says his wife Barbara...
Sometimes hair-dyeing rescues what might otherwise be a boring Saturday night. I mean, c'mon, once you slap on the rubber gloves and start stroking that cold, gooey Manic Panic into your best friend's hair, there's no other place you would rather be. Brown had her initial dyeing experience during high school, when her sister returned home from college for the first time. "It was a great bonding moment," she recalls. Here at school, hair-dyeing continues to be relatively spontaneous. Brown continues, "You have the feeling that you want to dye building...
American Tabloid is history as Hellzapoppin, a long slapstick routine careering around a manic premise: What if the fabled American innocence is all shuck and jive? To underscore his thesis, Ellroy uses spurts of unimaginable violence the way other writers deploy commas and periods: "Sal burned a man to death with a blowtorch. The man's wife came home unexpectedly. Sal shoved a gasoline-soaked rag in her mouth and ignited it. He said she died shooting flames like a dragon...