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...psychology, exploring the mind of Morrison's steel-willed protagonist Sethe (Oprah Winfrey), a former slave who now lives as a free woman in Ohio in the 1870s. Beloved is a handsome, classy production that is distinguished in every possible way, but it is also a cold film. The screenplay grapples admirably with Morrison's convoluted narrative but can never get to the heart of it. The saving grace of the movie is the renowned cast. --Bill Gienapp...
...soft-spoken family man from Hoboken, N.J. has built a cult following from his outrageously funny fiction. The protagonist of Mark Leyner's latest novel, The Tetherballs of Bougainville, is a 13-year-old boy named "Mark Leyner" who has won a $250,000 per-year fellowship for a screenplay he hasn't yet written; his father, convicted of murdering a mall guard with a cuisinart, has been placed on "Discretionary Execution" by the State of New Jersey, meaning that he can be killed wherever and whenever the State feels like...
...since his charming turn in Unzipped. Women's Wear Daily editorial director Patrick McCarthy notes, "He's been a little bit less interested [in fashion] than when he first started out. He has said to friends lately, 'Maybe this isn't for me anymore.'" Mizrahi is working on a screenplay based on a comic book he wrote, The Adventures of Sandee the Supermodel. And he wants to act. But that, of course, is something he's been doing all along...
Beloved is a handsome, classy production that is distinguished in every possible way, but it is also a cold film, emotionally frigid at times, that is never able to truly absorb the viewer into its subject matter. The screenplay, written by Adam Brooks, Akosua Busia and Richard LaGravenese, grapples admirably with Morrison's convoluted narrative but can never get to the heart of it. The strength of Morrison's book is her flowing prose and her ability to weave her story over time, but without her voice or that framework, the movie moves as slowly as molasses through its near...
...convent in 1981, resolving what then-mayor Ed Koch called "the most heinous crime in the history of New York City." The movie includes this event, as well as Dietl's friendly relations with members of the mob and his problems with the police station hierarchy. It looks like screenplay writer Jeremy Iacone, however, relied on more than the book for inspiration. He seems to have borrowed from a multitude of sources in constructing his story, creating a virtual menagerie of unconnected events and characters...