Word: touche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...audience, which prefers spectacular fantasy and broad comedy, but to older viewers, more sophisticated and more sentimental, liberal in their politics and conservative in their desire for humanist affirmation--folks very like the typical Oscar voter. This audience wants, as Fine Line president Ruth Vitale puts it, "movies that touch your heart, that make you pause, think, maybe pick up the phone and call your...
Unless he has adapted to the new era, as has the one who calls himself Juvenal in writer-director Paul Schrader's sly and nicely understated adaptation of novelist Elmore Leonard's Touch. Played by Skeet Ulrich, he has done time in the wilderness, suffers the stigmata and can cure the incurable by the laying on of hands. Otherwise, though, he's a cool dude. He likes girls, shows no particular interest in spreading any sort of gospel and turns a politely bemused face toward the hustlers and lowlifes who swarm around when word of his preternatural healing gifts starts...
...BLACKMAN and DOUGLAS WALLER are used to dealing directly with top officials in Washington, but the access they were given to Madeleine Albright last week was remarkable. For Blackman, who met Albright when she was working on Geraldine Ferraro's 1984 vice-presidential campaign and has kept in touch with Albright's network of close women friends, it was a chance to renew old ties. Waller, meantime, followed Albright through a typical workday, riding in her limousine and sitting in on meetings from 7:30 a.m. until late in the evening. "She's fun to cover," says Waller...
...HAIR DYE shows its true colors. Research suggests dyes that are applied daily until the desired color is achieved--Grecian Formula, for example--may leave dangerous residues of lead on hands and bathroom surfaces. Of particular concern: kids who touch the stuff and swallow it. Manufacturers dispute these findings...
MOVIES . . . TOUCH: Writer-director Paul Schrader's sly and nicely understated adaptation of novelist Elmore Leonard's 'Touch' is the story of Juvenal, a Christ figure who has adapted to the modern era. Played by Skeet Ulrich, he has done time in the wilderness, suffers the stigmata and can cure the incurable by the laying on of hands. Otherwise, though, he's a cool dude. He likes girls, shows no particular interest in spreading any sort of gospel and turns a politely bemused face toward the hustlers and lowlifes who swarm around when word of his preternatural healing gifts starts...