Word: slivering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like to watch don't you," the ads for Sliver ask, breathlessly leaving out all the proper punctuation marks, thereby implying that other, more significant proprieties may have been violated in the movie itself. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to answer, "Well...
...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...
...wholly warranted. The hot screenwriter Joe Eszterhas says Ovitz threatened to ruin him when he switched to ICM 3 1/2 years ago, but his writing fees have kept climbing. CAA client Michael Douglas appeared in his Basic Instinct, and CAA tried to get its clients cast in Eszterhas' forthcoming Sliver. In late 1991 Wall Street Journal reporter Richard Turner co-wrote a devastating article about Ovitz's overenthusiastic involvement in a penny-ante company pushing QSound, an unsuccessful audio technology. Ovitz apparently sputtered at the time that Turner was finished in Hollywood, "a dead man." However, as with Eszterhas, reason...