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...film's most daring scene, she brings home two city boys to her room where, drugged out, she is passed around like a rag doll. Both funny and unbearably sad, the scene developed from intensive rehearsals with National Institute of Dramatic Art graduates Toby Schmitz and Henry Nixon. "It was almost as if it was just her body in the scene and not her soul," Shortland recalls. With Cornish's out-there performance (the light to Worthington's dark), something beautiful is released...
...Target: the Oval Office? Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 [UNITED STATES, July 19] is just the latest and most successful in a long list of political satires. Thirty-three years ago, President Richard M. Nixon was the focus of a similar skewering. As we noted in our review of Millhouse: A White Comedy...
...employed his usual technique of matching fragments of news film with quick on-camera interviews to produce an unflattering but funny likeness of the 37th President (whose middle name is Milhous, not Millhouse, but let that go). To be sure, De Antonio's jubilant bias sometimes plays him false. Nixon is too often seen stumbling over a foot or a phrase, and sometimes satire descends to the level of easy derision ... But when it works, De Antonio's sense of juxtaposition can be lethal ... [He] is also shrewd enough to know when Nixon is his own worst enemy...
Allen, then, has been much married. To Anthony Hopkins' Nixon in Nixon. To Daniel Day-Lewis' John Proctor in The Crucible. To Kevin Kline's cheating spouse in The Ice Storm, to John Travolta's FBI agent in Face/Off and to William H. Macy's George in Pleasantville. Not the worst husbands in the world, but, sheesh, enough. Allen would never say "sheesh," but she put her foot down. "More than anything, I felt like the vein had collapsed--like if you were a junkie," she says of the spousal roles. "There's no more to give...
DIED. FRED LARUE, 75, mysterious aide to President Richard Nixon and key figure in the cover-up of the 1972 Watergate break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters; in Biloxi, Miss. The bagman, who lacked title, salary or mention in the White House directory, served 136 days in jail for paying more than $300,000 to Watergate conspirators and supervising the shredding of documents and financial records related to the scandal...