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...homework paid off for Kidman. To Die For has won the 28-year-old Australian the most lustrous reviews of her career. Told in a blur of tabloid headlines, mockumentary interviews and dramatic reconstructions, the movie is the story of Suzanne Stone Maretto, a vamp from Little Hope, New Hampshire, who persuades a smitten teenager (Joaquin Phoenix) to try murdering her husband (Matt Dillon). The film, based on Joyce Maynard's novel, is a classy collision between the chipper misanthropy of scriptwriter Buck Henry and the eroticizing of dopey young sociopaths found in director Gus Van Sant's earlier work...
...redhead with the face of a pensive pre-Raphaelite has never been accused of anything more serious than criminal gorgeousness. Her vertiginous pastimes, such as rock climbing, are the ways a game gal spends a Sunday with her jock husband. So Kidman is not Suzanne Maretto; and the actress, now on location in Italy starring in the Jane Campion film of Henry James' Portrait of a Lady, will heatedly explain why. "Everyone says, 'Oh, you are Suzanne, that's how you played the role so well.' Well, no! I'm an actor, and I created that role. My dream...
...rumor comes, you can bet Kidman will do to it what Suzanne Stone Maretto did to her unnecessary husband: blow it away, with a smile...
...Joyce Maynard's novel To Die For, preternaturally perky news anchor-wannabe Suzanne Maretto says that if her life is ever made into a movie, she'd like to be played by "that actress that just got married to Tom Cruise." Three years later, it has and she is. "After I got the part, I read the book and I thought 'Oh my God. This is so strange,'" says NICOLE KIDMAN, the wife in question. The character who gave her the nod is a mariticidal lunatic, but Kidman was flattered. "Even though Suzanne's totally wild and has a completely...
...follows the well-covered case of New Hampshire high school instructor Pamela Smart, convicted in 1991 of persuading her teenage lover to kill her husband. In Maynard's novel the cold-blooded, career-obsessed killer is Suzanne Maretto, who hungers to become the next Barbara Walters. Her husband is a sweet-tempered restaurant manager, and her lover is an emotionally fragile teenage...
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