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PENN: There wasn't a finished script, but you had a lot of good things. There was her, and, you know, you've already made 152 great movies. What is that, about a movie a year...
KIDMAN: I'm actually used to working this way. On Moulin Rouge! we didn't have a script. We had a picture book. That's what Baz [Luhrmann] presents to you, and then he writes and rewrites, and every weekend is choreographing something. Birth was like that too. I'd get the pages in the morning and shoot in the afternoon...
...brings realism to fantasy in Target. Burstyn clarifies her character without oversimplifying. She finds both repose and luminosity in Kate. Madigan is not afraid to let the audience dislike her abrasiveness, while Sheedy uses patience and stillness as a counterpoise. Only Ann-Margret is somewhat shortchanged by the script: her motives are never made fully clear. Sometimes, too, the movie feels overly tidy and pleased with its own humanism. But it unashamedly keeps scratching away at small behavioral truths, and draws some blood in the process...
...rappin' is the latest form of talkin' the blues/ By the bro's from the Bronx in their burgundy shoes./And now their story's on the screen at the Multiplex./ (Ralph Farquhar wrote the script; Michael Schultz he directs.)/ And the boys who made the noise are in their very own show:/ Run-D.M.C., the Fat Boys, Kurtis Blow./ Then there's Blair Underwood, a kind of Poitier hunk,/ And Sheila E. (Prince's princess) in her foppery funk./ Now there've been fights at the Plexes, kids've got out of hand,/ But they must've spiked...
...hoped to accomplish a similar sort of generic revivification for younger children with One Magic Christmas, which is about a little girl's attempt to get her dour mom (Mary Steenburgen) into the holiday spirit. The child is given a guardian angel and Santa Claus as helpers, but the script lacks a clear narrative line, the supporting cast is woefully weak, and Director Borsos' touch is too heavy for the light fantastic. --By Richard Schickel