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...Diana herself had become a tabloid star--almost a fictional star. Since the days of Thomas Hardy at least, people have been moved to passionate sorrow by the death of public personalities they have never met, and who sometimes never existed. No doubt thousands wept over the fate of Tess of the d'Urbervilles when her story appeared week by week in the Graphic in 1890, just as truly as they wept for Diana when they read of her death in the Sun in 1997. They have been deluded into thinking they actually knew her by the tireless machines...
...will furrow his brow and gaze doggily at the speaker, as if he's trying hard to listen to your problems so his head won't explode from all of his. Yet he can see the humor in himself. Says Shirley MacLaine, his co-star in Guarding Tess: "Nic winks at his own intensity...
BORN: Jan. 16, 1953, Milwaukee EDUCATION: Lawrence U, B.S., 1975; Northwestern U, M.S.J., 1976; U of Wisconsin, M.B.A., 1990 FAMILY: Wife, Tess; three children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Television journalist; business executive POLITICAL CAREER: U.S. House, 1990- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 5619, Madison...
Director Hugh Wilson (Guarding Tess) took the helm and thought the script was "too fluffy." He proposed big changes (in his version, for example, Keaton's child is retarded). "I wanted to make it more realistic and, I thought, funnier," he recalls. "I was saying, 'It's too easy; they all have money. What does a woman do who doesn't have money? And why the hell do they just have two children [among them]?' I thought it should be more in line with the average person." Now he says in relief, "Thank God I got talked...
...movie chronicles the experiences of 10-year-old Fiona (Jeni Courtney) who, at the death of her mother, has come to live with her grandparents Hugh (Mick Lally) and Tess (Eileen Colgan). Between her grandparents and her cousins, Fiona is imbued with a heavy dosage of family myths. She is told about the disappearance of her brother, Jamie, when his cradle floated out to sea. She learns about her great-grandmother, a Selkie, who was half-human, half-seal. All this takes place on the lost family island, Roan Inish...