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...included a father and his slouching, intensely apathetic teenage son. It wasn't until the tour guide mentioned that a helium leak could fell a man on the spot that the youngster's eyes lit up, practically dancing with visions of white-coated scientists crumpling to the floor like unstrung marionettes. "So, this thing could just kill us all," he said. "So, it's a death ray!" The father murmured, "Well, I'm not sure that's correct-" Too late. The son said, "Cool...
TONI COLLETTE, 32, center, has spent her career playing unstrung women on the verge, like the despairing mom in About a Boy. "I find myself falling into a niche," says Collette. "I want to expand it." As Rose in In Her Shoes, with CAMERON DIAZ, left, who plays her pretty but flaky sister, and SHIRLEY MACLAINE, her long-lost grandmother, Collette starts out frumpy, overworked and overweight (she gained 25 lbs. for the role) but eventually blossoms. Says Collette: "Her name, Rose, says...
...MOVIE Unstrung Heroes "I was very impressed by Diane Keaton's directing...
...easy way to account for this phenomenon is quickly rejected: "She told herself she was not an unstrung woman who encounters a person responsive to psychic forces, able to put her in touch with her late husband. This was something else." But what? That is the question most contemporary authors would next address. Not DeLillo. His refusal to explain away Mr. Tuttle's presence in what otherwise looks like a realistic narrative makes The Body Artist an unsettling but thoroughly fascinating read. If Lauren really is, despite her belief to the contrary, unstrung, or if her experiences with Mr. Tuttle...
...balcony's edge. A crowd of performers is milling in the wings, brocaded and beribboned. In the pit a harpsichordist is bent over his instrument like a hermit at his orisons, wielding the tiny crucifix of a tuning key. A Cupid darts across the unclothed scene, her bow unstrung and one wing dangling. Someone jostles the stringed spear of a chitarrone, and two primped and padded militaries saunter on stage left. This is the dress rehearsal of Cavalli's Giasone, a baroque opera put on by the Harvard Early Music Society...