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...role of CIA director. It's a monstrous job. Three directors in the past six years have tried to drag America's $30-billion-a-year intelligence empire into the post-cold war era as ugly disclosures--especially the unmasking of traitors Aldrich Ames and Harold Nicholson--made the agency seem an unreliable relic. Why should anyone think that Tenet, a New Yorker whose Greek-immigrant parents owned a diner, can succeed...
...Evening Star. Publicist: "My sense was that no one cared about a sequel to that movie [1983 Best Picture Terms of Endearment]." Former studio head: "Another half hour of Jack Nicholson might have helped...
...fairness, I can see where Guinness is coming from. He has had a truly remarkable film career, and was already a much admired star when Star Wars was not even a gleam in Lucas's eye. His portrayal of Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai, for which he was awarded a Best Actor Oscar, stands as one of the truly great performances in cinema, and his work in films as diverse as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and Cromwell (a personal favorite) is outstanding. But in my mind's eye he will always be dueling Darth Vader...
...White House soon. A perennial supporting player, Thornton is now getting fat roles in A pictures: as Sean Penn's nemesis in Oliver Stone's U-Turn and as James Carville, more or less, in the Mike Nichols film Primary Colors. "He's a redneck artist," says Nichols. "Like Nicholson, Travolta and Whoopi Goldberg, he can play street characters with enormous intellect. He has a genius for connecting with people...
...zapping; they are all either too dumb or too self-absorbed to warrant salvation. Indeed, the big, slowly dawning joke in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! is that, unlike Independence Day or any other high-tech disaster movie, most of its vast and starry cast--headed by Jack Nicholson, in dual roles--is not going to be present when the final credits roll...