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...male lead (Jonathan Schaech) takes lessons from Paul Reiser, the nineties Alan Alda. The female lead, played by Gwyneth Paltrow is spunky and independent. (See, no jokes about her weight in this review). The mother-in-law presents, sadly, a thoroughly ingrained type, the Endora that all dowagers become. But maybe we should throw social critique to the wind as we've lowered our standards to below action flick plot expectations by watching this movie in the first place. Nope. That's the beauty of being fly enough to play both sides of this issue...
...though the movie pays its respect to romantic detail, it's really just this big cat fight over this man who is decidedly handsome but not convincing enough to be worth fighting over. Apparently, women only shine if men are just not present, because Lange plays a widow and Schaech might as well be dead for all his presence does to move along the plot--though he is cute, so he can stay. But I digress...
...Wonders come together without cohering and fall apart without reason. We know the movie thinks the drummer (the criminally cute, severely Hanksian Tom Everett Scott) is the band's soul, destined to get that kiss from Liv Tyler. But we don't learn what inspired the Wonders' leader (Johnathon Schaech) to compose the title song--kind of crucial to know, since it's played 11 times in the film. Other band members are mere ciphers (Ethan Embry) or shtick (Steve Zahn). As their manager, Hanks is villainous or fatherly, depending on the script's errant needs. Why he would create...
...mantle. Having got a lock on decent-guy-in-difficult-circumstances roles, Hanks is taking a stab at writing, directing and starring in his own movie. He's wrapping That Thing You Do, with (clockwise from top left) ETHAN EMBRY, STEVE ZAHN, TOM EVERETT SCOTT, LIV TYLER and JOHNATHON SCHAECH, the story of a rock band in 1964. (You were perhaps expecting vampires and crack?) "There was a lack of cynicism," says Hanks of that era. "In 1964, everybody still believed in the carousel of progress." Directing has given Hanks a new appreciation for acting. "If you squint your eyes...
...fret if you don't recognize all of the gentlemen photographed by Annie Leibovitz above. According to Vanity Fair, you will. Of all the young males walking around movie sets, the magazine thinks TIM ROTH, LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, BENICIO DEL TORO, MICHAEL RAPAPORT, STEPHEN DORFF, JOHNATHON SCHAECH, DAVID ARQUETTE, WILL SMITH and SKEET ULRICH will become the hot male stars of next year or so. Either that or these are the ones with the best publicists. And in case tomorrow's men aren't as interesting to you as yesterday's boys, photographer Herb Ritts gives JACKIE COOPER...