Word: slivered
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...movie screen is, among other things, a big lighted window. And we, watching in the dark, are, among other things, voyeurs, always hoping to see forbidden sights. Sliver's vulgar lure is that we will be allowed to peep at Sharon Stone in various stages of undress, in a variety of compromising positions. Its somewhat more interesting premise is that she is a projection of our watching selves, a respectable Manhattan publishing-house editor named Carly Norris, who is herself drawn into voyeurism. In other words, we are invited to watch a watcher as she learns to like watching...
...Sliver might have made more of this aspect of Carly's psychology, but it is fixated on the fact that when she moves out of a bad marriage and into the high-rise that gives the film its title, she is in a near-terminal state of horniness. This explains her implausible attraction to Zeke Hawkins (William Baldwin), who is creepy at first glance and does not improve on longer acquaintance...
Last week Ted Turner and Jane Fonda bought 25,000 acres of ranchland in western Montana (adding to the 100,000-plus acres they already own). Meanwhile the Tom Berenger character in Sliver says he owns a ranch in Montana too. He, Ted and Jane aren't alone...
...career hits a new, if bumpy, peak with the erotic thriller Sliver. Shooting is shadowed by rumors of tension between co-stars Sharon Stone and William Baldwin. Then the steamy, voyeur-happy sex in the film threatens to + saddle it with a box-office-stifling NC-17 rating, and dozens of trims are made in the final cut to get an R rating. With extensive retooling going on, the buzz is downright dismal, and Paramount even declines to hold advance reviewers' screenings. In the midst of all this, he leaves his wife of 24 years and takes up with...
...California, Eszterhas typically has shuttled from hotel room to interview to fax machine, firing off bulletins about his romance with Naomi Macdonald and about William Macdonald's with Stone. Last week the two new odd couples found themselves at a somewhat intense 10-foot distance of each other during Sliver's post-premiere party in Los Angeles...