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...million in Arizona. In Iowa and New Hampshire he will spend at least twice what the law permits the other candidates to spend. His opponents claim the press has given him a free ride, whether charmed by the idea of an editor-king or just looking for a plot twist with which to torture the front runners...
Actually, that murder, in the new film of Richard III, offers a cleverer twist on the orgasmic affinity of love and death than any devised by Eszterhas for Basic Instinct. It has the added jolt of literary blasphemy, like hearing a Tupac Shakur lyric sung in Westminster Abbey. Melodrama in Shakespeare? How awful, how scabrous, how very...appropriate, since Will was a man of the theater who gloried in the trappings of stage sensation. And because Richard III and Iago are the two scurviest, most seductive villains in the canon, it is right for directors to find a movie equivalent...
...they know the trick is to tweak it. Remember Too Beautiful for You, where Gerard Depardieu spurns gorgeous wife Carole Bouquet for dumpy secretary Josiane Balasko? This time writing and directing as well as starring, Balasko has wrung another variation on the old gag. Husband, wife, lesbian interloper. French Twist...
...France under the title Gazon Maudit (which translates literally as Cursed Lawn--never mind!), the movie breaks the rules of farce; its characters begin as caricatures, then fill out into complex people whose openness to love surprises no one more than themselves. Brisk and sassy, French Twist gives great fun. It's a nice way to start the movie year: in bed with three genial lunatics...
THIS IS A CINDERELLA STORY, like the one in Sabrina, but with a twist. Once upon a time, there was a fellow with the most despised job title in the country: talk-show host. Little did he know that a movie director was having trouble finding an actor for a big role in the year's pedigree romantic comedy. The director spotted the chat host on late-night TV, making a joke about his goofy new hairstyle, and, the director says, "I believed him." Presto! From the night shift, a star was born...