Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zoglin. "Diana was the most famous person in the world. Her life was kind of a soap opera, and the ending was classic soap opera." Only this soap was for real, and that stark reality touched everyone who sat open-mouthed in front of a TV set or computer screen this weekend. Their only comfort: that millions of others were grieving...
Even the N.B.A.'s off season can't sideline basketball's mouthiest trash talker. Spike Lee is calling the shots on the set of He Got Game. DENZEL WASHINGTON had to adapt his style to Spike's X's and 0's. Denzel's screen personas usually range from the inhumanly brave to the downright angelic, but in Game he plays the ultimate deadbeat dad. His character, Jake Shuttlesworth, is doing time for killing his wife. Freedom beckons, in the form of a Governor's pardon, if he can persuade his estranged son Jesus, a high school basketball star played...
...Irish sticking it to the man in the coal pits of 1879 Pennsylvania, where though the take-home is twenty-four cents a week, all the positions are full-time. Starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris, it's a face of labor so sooty it should screen at Teamsters meetings, not to mention smoke-out seminars...
...LaBute, 34, a playwright making his debut as screen auteur, the flush of anger is a careermaking dream. "I'm more than happy that people are polarized," he says. "I'd much rather have somebody hate my movie than be indifferent about it." He would get his wish if he listened to TIME film critic Richard Schickel: "Other pictures that have broken out on the basis of sociological buzz, like Thelma & Louise, had appealing characters confronting interesting issues in suspenseful or comic fashion. But here all we are dealing with is sociopathic behavior that has no real-world resonance...
...Bill Clinton felt like vetoing his on-screen portrayal in this summer's Contact, wait until he gets a peek at next year's Primary Colors. The $65 millionish feature is based on the best-selling roman a clef that portrays an ambitious Governor named Jack Stanton whose presidential campaign is rocked by bimbo eruptions and accusations of draft dodging. The movie, which director Mike Nichols finished shooting last week, stars John Travolta as Stanton, Emma Thompson as his strong-willed wife Susan and Billy Bob Thornton as a James Carville-type campaign manager...