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...history: as a successful Broadway play, then as a Billy Wilder movie starring three beloved figures, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. And, as you'll recall, it has a nice little story to tell too. It's the one about the chauffeur's daughter (Julia Ormond), living over the garage on a vast Long Island estate, in love since childhood with David (Greg Kinnear), the playboy living up the driveway. When she grows up and he notices her, that threatens his engagement, which in turn threatens the merger of two family firms that Linus (Harrison Ford), his older...
...wanted to meet me," says GREG KINNEAR, "I assumed he probably wanted me to come by and wax his car." In fact, the director wanted Kinnear--host of Later, NBC's post-Conan O'Brien talk show-to co-star in a remake ofSabrina, alongside HARRISON FORD and JULIA ORMOND. "I was disappointed when I found out he wasn't considering me for the part of Sabrina," Kinnear says of his first film role. "But hey, you take your lumps in show biz." Returning to earth--and Later--doesn't seem to have had a dampening effect on his confidence.Although...
RICHARD GERE'S LANCELOT IS A cheeky existentialist. Julia Ormond's Guinevere is all up-to-date feminist spunk. Sean Connery's King Arthur is a leader for the Clinton era, well-meaning, essentially temporizing, as he impotently watches a great dream dwindle...
With a particularly modern savviness, Ormond portrays a Guinevere who saves her ladies-in-waiting, pushes an attacker out the side of a runaway carriage and escapes an entire armed company en route to her marriage. This is no weepy damsel in distress...
...Ormond also gives a new maturity to the character. Even as she struggles with her divided love for the two men, she upholds her integrity, saying to Arthur that he "has the best of [her], [her] mind and [her] will...