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...Susan Tyler (Mira Sorvino) paces edgily on a deserted New York City subway platform. A brilliant scientist who has recently used genetic engineering to eradicate an epidemic, Susan is not smart enough to realize she's in a horror movie and ought to be wary of approaching a tall, hooded stranger to ask the time. The stranger turns and reveals its hideous face--ewwww, a killer cockroach! It enfolds Susan in its great wings and flies off into the subway's dank underworld...
...instead of being chastised with an uncomfortable silence. To break up the long shoots, Tarantino staged antics like "Skirt Day," on which men were encouraged to wear dainty frocks (he wore a kilt), and gave weekly wrap parties, including one raging bonfire dance in which Tarantino, his girlfriend (actress Mira Sorvino) and crew members boogied after midnight to the sound tracks from his previous films...
Every uprising knows its demons on a first-name basis. The French railed at Louis and Marie Antoinette; the Russians at Nicholas and Alexandra; the Filipinos at Ferdinand and Imelda; the Romanians at Nicolae and Elena. Now, in Serbia, the targets are Slobo and Mira, the nicknames of President Slobodan Milosevic and his wife Mirjana Markovic. So renowned is the President's wife--never call her the First Lady to her face--that she is being pilloried in her own right by the protesters in Belgrade...
Slobo and Mira have two children: Marija, 31, and Marko, 23. Markovic once doted on Marija, whom she named for a Yugoslav war heroine, Marija Bursac. But, she told her official biographer, "I realized at one point that my Marija will never be Marija Bursac." Marija went on to study in the school of tourism. Today she runs a radio station owned by her mother's communist organization and dates a taxi driver turned gangster...
...Actress Mira Sorvino was very perceptive to observe that Marilyn Monroe's dumb-blond persona was just a facade [PEOPLE, April 8]. When I was a young resident physician, I had the pleasure of meeting Marilyn and playing a role in her medical care. Not only was she a kind and compassionate woman, but she was also highly intelligent and interested in a wide variety of subjects. One example: she asked about a book I was reading by Albert Einstein, describing his philosophy of life. She borrowed it, read it and thoughtfully discussed it with me. I always liked...