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Recluses come in two varieties: those who live in 8-ft. by 10-ft. shacks in Montana and those for whom top Hollywood talent begs to work--for scale. The latter category includes directors Stanley Kubrick, who kept Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman on a movie set for almost two years, and TERRENCE MALICK, the anti-social filmmaker who hasn't directed a movie or agreed to be photographed (until now) in 20 years. Malick has made only two films, Badlands and Days of Heaven, but his reputation has grown in inverse proportion to his output, enabling him to draw...
EPICTETUS Tom Wolfe borrows from him, and 1st century Stoic's books are rereleased. Luckily, no royalties...
ELECTION CONCEDED. TO JAMES P. HOFFA, 57, for the presidency of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the hard-driving union his infamous father once ran. Though the vote count hadn't officially ended, challenger Tom Leedham conceded the election Saturday, effectively giving lawyer Hoffa the job. Hoffa lost a 1996 race that was later voided by federal monitors...
...Fiennes) becomes pen-tied, the future of English literature is imperiled. For his new play he has a title--Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter--but not a clue. This is a man in search of a muse, which fate, in the form of screenwriters Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, brightly provides. Viola De Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) has it all: beauty, poise, a dowry and a titled suitor. But what she really wants...
...creation and premiere of Romeo and Juliet. It peoples the London of 1593 with the usual suspects--Christopher Marlowe (crafty Rupert Everett), Queen Elizabeth (Judi Dench, a sly dominatrix)--and some ageless show-biz types: the poverty-pleading producer (Geoffrey Rush), the backer with a lust for limelight (Tom Wilkinson). Director John Madden works in jokes about profit sharing and credit hogging, and a climax in which the real star steps in for an indisposed leading lady...