Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...black-oriented romance novels that came to market after McMillan's well-written book struck gold are any indication, it's also trash oriented, no matter what ethnic group it's aiming at. What a tragedy if African Americans' understandable desire to see themselves on the big screen becomes an excuse to smother all of us in slick Hollywood trash...
...based on the best-selling, and better written, novel by Terry McMillan. The movie's central characters are four black women trying to eke out a living for themselves in Scottsdale, Arizona: Savannah (Whitney Houston), Bernadine (Angela Bassett), Gloria(Loretta Devine) and Robin (Lela Rochon). Also featured are big-screen talents Wesley Snipes, who plays Bernadine's post-marital love interest, and Gregory Hines, who plays Marvin, Gloria's last chance at romance...
...cardboard prop, and incorporated their famous arguments into gag lyrics for their duets. They worked literally nose to nose: Jerry would lick Dean's face; Dean would flick his cigarette ashes in Jerry's mouth (and lick Jer's face). It was primal therapy on the 12-inch screen, stripping bare a volatile marriage in all its grotesque intimacy--a bizarre comic display of love and resentment. No way it could last...
...lucky too. Kinnear, host of NBC's Later and, before that, the E! channel's Talk Soup, swipes his scenes from Hollywood belle du jour Julia Ormond and nearly matches Harrison Ford for easy radiance. In his first major film role, Kinnear seems comfy-cozy on the big screen, humanizing a character--Ford's playboy brother--who could easily be a thin, tennis-anyone anachronism. "He has a lot of charm," says Sydney Pollack, who first sought Tom Cruise for the role. "You like him immediately." No wonder: the play of emotions in Kinnear's eyes is subtle, suggestive...
...MERCEDES BENZ VIA JANIS JOPLIN Sure, sure, it prostitutes the spirit of the 1960s, but the finest car ad of late achieves perfect-pitch simplicity. A new model E-class coasts toward us on the TV screen. The only sound we hear is Joplin belting her classic Mercedes Benz...