Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Diego's apartment seems like a different world, crammed with books, records, sculptures, religious artifacts and pictures of silver screen goddesses. David is at once attracted to and repelled by what he sees. The seduction works on two levels; there is the provocative temptation of forbidden knowledge contained in the books and Diego's clumsy attempts to bed David. The awkward situation worsens and David leaves in disgust...
...Johnson, buyer for Videots, a smart Santa Monica outlet. Finding a Chan film under its multiplicity of titles is one challenge. Another can be watching it, in washed-out, nth-generation dupes with indifferent dubbing or Japanese subtitles (or none at all) and with the sides of the wide-screen images lopped...
...MICHELLE PFEIFFER to the list of actresses who will never belt the words Don't Cry for Me, Argentina. Pfeiffer rejected the role of Eva Peron in the much delayed screen version of Evita because she wanted to spend time with her new family. Madonna and Meryl Streep had also been considered to play the wife of Argentine dictator Juan Peron. New possibilities include Patricia Arquette, star of A Nightmare on Elm Street...
DIED. DONALD PLEASENCE, 75, stage and screen star; in St.-Paul-de-Vence, France. A chameleon-like character actor who could be as meek as he could be malevolent, he was 40 when he won international notice as the repellent Davies in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker. But his widest audiences were reached in more popular fare like The Great Escape (1963), Halloween (1978) and the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967) in which he played cat-loving archvillain Blofeld...
...first novel, Strangers on the Train, which Alfred Hitchcock made into a movie. Highsmith's most famous character was Tom Ripley, an opportunistic and amoral gentleman-murderer. DIED. DONALD PLEASENCE, 75, chameleon-like British character actor who could be meek or malevolent in his stage and screen roles; in St.-Paul-de-Vence, France. Pleasence first gained an international reputation as the compellingly repellent Davies in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker. But his widest audiences were reached in more popular fare such as The Great Escape and the James Bond film You Only Live Twice...