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Passing the Torch...
Switch to the hero, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), who has just found a human ear in a field. He takes it to the Lumberton police and carries out a personal investigation that leads him to Sandy Williams, the chief's daughter (Laura Dern), Dorothy Vallens, a masochistic torch singer (Isabella Rossellini) and Frank Booth, a perverted drug dealer (Dennis Hopper). Jeffrey discovers that Vallens' son and husband have been kidnapped by Booth, and his effort to intervene opens realms of violence and sexuality he never knew possible...
...most fashionable boulevards, momentarily became a runway last week. The stunt occurred after the street had been closed to traffic for the shooting of a promotional film to aid Paris' bid for the 1992 Olympic Games. As the cameras rolled and 1976 Olympic Gold Medal Hurdler Guy Drut ran, torch in hand, up the deserted avenue, a blue, single-engine Rallye-Club suddenly zoomed in over the Arc de Triomphe and put down in a perfect landing...
...much confidence when I got there, and so little when I left. For six months they wouldn't cast me in a play, and I was forced to perform in the campus cabaret." Poor, lucky Sigourney. For it was there she teamed up with Christopher Durang, who would soon torch off-Broadway with the blazing sitcom absurdism of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You and The Marriage of Bette and Boo. Says Durang, 37: "I'd written an anarchist musical called Better Dead than Sorry. Sigourney sang the title song while receiving shock treatment. It was the first...
Davis said that she was looking forward to working with flug in the coming year. "She knows her p's and q's," said Davis. "The passing of the torch should be easy...