Word: riddler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Riddler, the Penguin and Poison Ivy another Batman nemesis--the Photographer. Batman & Robin star GEORGE CLOONEY, on promotional duty in Australia, visited Melbourne's Hellfire Club, an S&M night spot. But his sojourn among the whips-and-chains crowd was interrupted by the activities of free-lance photographer Robin Dallimore. Clooney snatched Dallimore's camera but was unable to remove the film and asked Dallimore to do it. The photographer obliged, then tried to flee with it, angering Clooney, who, Dallimore says, "ripped my shirt and started to claw me," leaving scratch marks on his neck. Police declined...
...second room, the subject shifts to celebrities, mostly models and actors. Ritts takes no single approach to photographing them. There is the cast of Batman Forever in full costume, including Jim Carrey hamming it up as the Riddler and a huge Warholesque quartet of portraits of Jack Nicholson as the Joker. There is Vanity Fair's gender-bending cover photo of Cindy Crawford playing the seductress for k.d. lang. Unlike the anonymous models of the first part of the exhibition, whose faces are often turned away or obscured, the faces of the celebrities are essential to their portraits. However, sometimes...
...Lots of characters too. Robin (Chris O'Donnell) joins the series, which undercuts Batman's heroic loneliness. Nicole Kidman, as the requisite love interest, is little more than a party decoration. And two villains are too many. Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face and Jim Carrey as the Riddler have dueling star turns, with Carrey winning, of course; he can torture the most innocent banalities, like a simple "Well, yes," into delirious comedy. At the end he's still there, potentially available for a fourth Batman...
Having seen concepts for sequels pre-empted by Under Siege (Die Hard on a destroyer) and Speed (Die Hard on a bus), director John McTiernan and writer Jonathan Hensleigh turned the tables and appropriated a device sure to be used in this summer's Batman Forever. Like the Riddler, Vengeance's evil genius (Jeremy Irons) taunts the hero with word games, history quizzes and math problems -- riddles, see? This keeps the plot clock ticking as McClane and a good-hearted black racist (Samuel L. Jackson) dash around Manhattan at Irons' bidding...
Biggest Hit: Batman Forever. It's got Jim Carrey as the Riddler (enough said). Plus sex, laughs, swank, acres of heavy leather-and a great logo...