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Gere's performance is nowhere near as solid as Connery's. Gere's stout American accent is slightly incongruous with the stately English court atmosphere and his screen presence is often dwarfed by Connery...
DIED. LANA TURNER, 75, movie star; in Los Angeles. It was in her big-screen debut in 1937 that Turner first strode across the screen in a form-following sweater. The film's title: They Won't Forget. And they didn't. The "sweater girl" simmered through three decades of movies, mostly for MGM, which was the ideal studio for her high-wattage glamour. Aglow in white shorts, white top, white turban and acres of bare flesh for The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), she bedazzled John Garfield into murder; in Johnny Eager (1942), she helped Robert Taylor live...
...with other kids in the Treehouse chat room on America Online, got E-mail from a stranger that contained a mysterious file with instructions for how to download it. He followed the instructions, and then he called his mom. When Linda Mann-Urmacher opened the file, the computer screen filled with 10 thumbnail-size pictures showing couples engaged in various acts of sodomy, heterosexual intercourse and lesbian sex. "I was not aware that this stuff was online," says a shocked Mann-Urmacher. "Children should not be subjected to these images...
When he's not getting rich, he's becoming ever more famous. There's Gingrich the Small-Screen Star, who appeared regularly on National Empowerment Television; and Gingrich the after-dinner toastmaster, who can command $50,000 a plate at a fund raiser; as well as Gingrich the erstwhile college professor. If he doesn't get a grip, we may soon have Newt the Fragrance as well as coverage of Congress on a pay-per-view basis...
Perhaps more importantly, in this age of animated super heroes coming to life on the screen and Disney reduction of history and fantasy into marketable musical numbers, Bridges offers the hope of becoming a classic for our generation. Realism in the movies is all too rare, sacrificed for sugar-coated happy endings...