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...sweet sentiment, which is echoed in the closing moments of the new Australian film Strange Bedfellows. On the stage at a country firemen's ball, sexagenarian mechanic Ralph Williams (Michael Caton) professes his love for local projectionist Vince Hopgood (Paul Hogan). Whether it's more than platonic he refuses to tell. Judge us as people first, he says. To the other townsfolk of Yackandandah, he and Vince have been sending out mixed messages. Hitherto heterosexual, a widower and divorc? respectively, they've shacked up together and been spied draping their lounge room in rainbow flags and befriending the local hairdresser...
...comic pitch this potentially lively fall so dead in the water? It's tempting to blame young writer-director Dean Murphy. He has a sunny knack for observing gossip ricochet around a country town, but he lacks the worldly insight and satirical snap of a Wilder. When Vince and Ralph are instructed how to walk the talk ("Marilyn Monroe crossed with a bit of penguin"), it's like watching out-takes from In & Out and The Birdcage; later, when Postlethwaite's pit-bull-faced inspector comes to town, it's a gay Green Card...
...Crocodile Dundee franchise, which brought more than $600 million in box office receipts. And while the world has changed since then, Hogan's persona has remained stubbornly the same. Strange Bedfellows is an attempt to tweak that image. "I reckon it's all in the mannerisms," his Vince tells Ralph. "If we can learn half a dozen of them, we'll be home and hosed." Part of the problem is that Hogan's face spends most of the film in a tight scowl. And when he attempts to adopt Vince's new moves, it's as though his body...
Burke said that the arena for Green Party success rests in local, not national, politics because many voters are still angry about how Ralph Nader tilted the 2000 presidential election toward Bush...
...Madonna to bring the powdered wigs and the sumptuous decorative glory of the 18th century back into fashion. Coppola plans to make a movie out of Antonia Fraser's Marie Antoinette: The Journey. And Madonna is unearthing the corset again for her upcoming tour. On the decorative front, Ralph Lauren has created gold-plated flatware for his home collection, and Philippe Starck was inspired by Louis XV in his work for Baccarat and Kartell. Au revoir, finally, to minimalism. --By Amanda Greene