Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BLUE VELVET Political and sexual corruption in Your Town, U.S.A. David Lynch's | luscious sick joke is a nightmare that refuses to explain itself, or to be forgotten...
SOMETHING WILD joins the ranks of Blue Velvet and True Stories as one of this season's most bizarre films about life in so called `average' America...
...that point," concedes the full-time writer who has also dabbled in politics, prizefighting and performing. "Here I'm trying to make a professional, conventional film on its own terms." The movie boasts a $5 million budget and a cast that includes Ryan O'Neal as Madden, Isabella (Blue ; Velvet) Rossellini as his smoldering old flame and Newcomer Debra Sandlund as his estranged spouse. It is part of a two-picture deal Mailer has with Cannon films; the other part, already completed, was to write a screenplay for Jean- Luc Godard's King Lear...
...SQUARE, Blue Velvet is nightly revealing the dark underside of small town life. Down in the basement of Mather, an even darker underside is being exhibited. Lunge, Grip is the nightmare play of every Harvard-Radcliffe student. It's the world of "incestuous" collegiate relationships brought to the stage. Though never stated explicitly in the play, Kaplan has clearly drawn upon the Harvard experience for this production...
Hopper's rebirth came when he entered a drug-rehabilitation program in April 1984. Since then, he says, he has not taken so much as an aspirin and has worked almost nonstop. Besides appearing in Blue Velvet, he will be seen, again playing broken-down characters, in two other upcoming movies, Hoosiers and River's Edge...