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...Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino's debut as a director, makes audiences squirm with the de-earification of a police officer by bad guy Michael Madsen...
...copy machines are working overtime in Hollywood with galleys of Killer Instinct, a forthcoming tell-all tome that chronicles the making of Natural Born Killers. Written by one of the film's producers, JANE HAMSHER, the gossipy book is filled with wicked wit, mostly skewering screenwriter QUENTIN TARANTINO and director OLIVER STONE. Though stories of Stone's bacchanalian ways and Tarantino's saucy self-confidence are nothing new, Hamsher's gonzo take on NBK's evolution offers an insider's view of show-biz egos. Among the choice bits: details about Stone's stoned-out mushroom trip in the desert...
...thriller about a mutiny of convicted murderers aboard a transport plane, Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a bad-luck good guy on his way home from serving eight years in San Quentin on a bum rap. Cage's body is buffed enough for a macho role, but the Academy Award-winning actor seems a stretch as an action star. With his stubbly beard and stringy hair, he looks like either Jesus with a grudge or the guy who stares at kids from the other side of a schoolyard fence. Then, an hour into the film, Poe finds a villain rifling...
...used to walk through the Old Yard at dusk to catch the first lights as they gleamed from centuries-old dorm windows. These beacons provided comfort and an excursion for the mind: John F. Kennedy '40 lived behind one of these windows, and Ralph Waldo Emerson another, and Quentin Compson another, in William Faulkner's fiction and the collective Harvard consciousness...
After a dozen years as the exemplary flying-fisted female of Hong Kong films, Yeoh (also known as Michelle Kahn) is getting the Hollywood treatment, and not just at her fingertips. Quentin Tarantino has literally knelt at her feet, quizzing her adoringly about her films. Oliver Stone calls Yeoh "a woman of elegance and magnificent grace--the young grande dame of Hong Kong cinema." And there's a big retrospective of Yeoh's films (which can also be found in specialty video stores) this week and next at New York City's Cinema Village Theatre. But the actress is getting...