Word: version
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought of Gen X stars Vince Vaughn and Anne Heche replaying those parts seems like heresy. Not for Van Sant. "[Psycho] is perfect to refashion as a modern piece," he insists. "Reflections are a major theme in the original, with mirrors everywhere, characters who reflect each other. This version holds up a mirror to that film; it's sort of its schizophrenic twin...
...film won't be simply a colorized version of the old one. Costumes and sets have been given a '90s touch. The famed Bates Motel, made more Martha Stewart gothic than Herman Munster Victorian, now accepts the Discover card. In one hardware-store scene a Gulf War poster hangs on a wall not far from a sign advertising knife-sharpening services. Grazer asked that the film be "scarier and sexier." While some nudity and language that Hitchcock ditched due to the censorship restrictions of his day were restored, Van Sant has struggled to resist sheer exploitation. "I never thought this...
...shower sequence. In the black-and-white version, Hitchcock used chocolate syrup as fake blood; this time around, the porcelain is drenched with gallons of dark-cherry goo. "It was fun but tedious," laughs Heche, who refused a body double. "I mean, three days of going in the shower, drying off, then going back in. It was dry, wet, dry, wet, wet, wet, dry. 'O.K., scream...
...this is only nominally a sports movie. Yes, there was a time, more than a quarter-century ago, when Prefontaine held the American record in every distance from 2,000 to 10,000 m, when his bold front-running style and his self-dramatizing manner made him running's version of a rock star. And, yes, Towne conveys the exhilaration and exhaustion of high-level competition with unprecedented realism and intimacy...
...lottery when Oprah Winfrey chose Breath, Eyes, Memory as the June selection for her hugely popular on-air book club. "The call came out of the blue," says Danticat, who had met the talk-show queen while working as an extra on the set of Winfrey's forthcoming movie version of Toni Morrison's Beloved. "'Hi, it's Oprah!' I couldn't talk. I just got a little scared about what it all meant." One thing it meant: sales. Breath, Eyes, Memory shot to No. 1 on the Publishers Weekly paperback best-sellers list. There are now 600,000 copies...