Word: partings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That could be about to change. For at 38, she finally has a role in which, as she puts it, "I got to carry the main part of the story." This is in writer-director Neil Jordan's faithful, curiously compelling adaptation of Graham Greene's novel The End of the Affair...
...flipped the bag of laundry he was carrying onto his shoulder and shook my hand eagerly. He asked what I wrote, what part of L.A. I lived in. Then he smiled broadly, wagged his index finger at me and told me we were going to "rock this place." Last Tuesday night, four years after we left that place, and following numerous other efforts to clean up, Jay was found hanging in his bathroom, an apparent suicide...
...that dominated his best work: "the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God." Maurice, of course, is outraged by Sarah's disappearance--and sets a private detective on her. He's looking for an earthly explanation--a rival lover--not an unearthly one, for Sarah's defection. For her part, Sarah remains unsure what has happened to her. Was her prayer answered? Or was Maurice merely knocked out by the explosion...
...denied is the austerity and reality in which Jordan anchors his mystical topic or the way Moore, as the director says, "enters the being of upper-middle-class British life without a ripple," catching perfectly the "unknowable" nature of her character. "I've never seen anybody approach a part with less baggage," he says...
...became friends, I discovered that Jay was as golden as Hollywood golden boys get, a behind-the-scenes show-biz dealmaker with his hands on the levers of the starmaking machinery. One of the most successful agents in show business and a part owner of the powerful Creative Artists Agency, Jay represented Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Uma Thurman, David Letterman and other major names. He had been the protege of CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz and was already being touted, at 30, as a future studio head. He dated models and actresses, drove a Ferrari, lived...