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...competition was thick even before Kids was screened. That director Larry Clark's film still commanded the spotlight was a tribute to its American distributor, Miramax films, and its cunning boss, hype master Harvey Weinstein, who chose to see the film as a crusade for condom use. "Very few films have the ability to change the way people act," he says. "Hopefully this one will shock parents into doing something to help their children...
...Lubitsch touches have Miramax concerned that Kids, scheduled to open July 21, may get an NC-17 rating, which would mean that officially most of the film's young cast could not see it. The Walt Disney Co., Miramax's corporate parent, will not release NC-17 films; so Weinstein, who paid a risky $3.5 million for the $1.5 million-budgeted film, is ready to set up a separate company to distribute Kids. There will be, he vows, no scissoring to get an R rating. As for Clark, he proclaims himself mystified by the clamor: "There's very little nudity...
Interregional and International Trade: WoodyAllen Was Right! David Weinstein and DonaldDais. Room M-15, Littauer Center, 7 p.m.7 March Tuesday
OSCAR WILDE He's finally memorialized in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner THE WEINSTEIN BROTHERS Their Miramax Films nabs a leading 22 Oscar nominations...
...away from him; these are two different concepts." In fact, Sander's style is even more spartan than Armani's, her palette even narrower; her detractors would argue that her look is far more severe and somber. "She is one of those designers other designers laugh at," says Joan Weinstein, who did so well carrying the Sander line in her Chicago boutique that she recently opened an all-Sander shop close by. "They say, 'Oh, there's nothing exciting here,' but they forget we are in the business of selling clothes...