Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's a quick way to tell you're watching a mid-1990s independent film: PARKER POSEY is in it. The poised but perky 28-year-old was the toast of last week's Sundance Film Festival, appearing in three films, one of which Miramax bought for $2 million. Posey's characters range from a wisecracking temp to a chain-smoking music publicist to a mentally ill woman with a Jackie O. fixation. Having been in at least 15 independent films since she left As the World Turns four years ago, Posey is something of an expert on the genre...
...Jack Parker...
...smell, new or old, and the texture of fine paper, on which is written witness to a century of atrocity. But the public may want a sexy novel more than The Architecture of the Holocaust. Anyway, that's the belief of Isaac's grown children (Tony Goldwyn, Sarah Jessica Parker, Timothy Hutton), who wrest control of the house from their father. Soon after, Isaac lapses into a madness that estranges him from the world as fully as from his family...
...demanding of the people around her," says Parker (director of Fame and Mississippi Burning), who got the film made after at least three other directors had tried and failed. "But she's not a cliche diva stamping her foot. She's very intelligent. You've got to make sure you have the right answer when she has a question. She's a control freak, but so am I. When there was a problem, I would just say, 'Let her and me solve it.' " Madonna responds in kind: "Alan was very supportive during the shooting. He let me sort of follow...
...maintained his confidence even after a disastrous initial recording session, when Madonna was forced to launch into the show's biggest number, Don't Cry for Me Argentina, backed by an oversize, 84-piece orchestra whose members had never before played together. Lloyd Webber was upset with the musicians, Parker had first-day jitters and Madonna went home in tears. "I was so nervous," she says, "because I knew that Andrew had had reservations about me, and here I'm singing the hardest song in the piece. And all of a sudden there with everybody for the first time...