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...Like, You Know... (Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. E.T., ABC) digs into the quirks of L.A.: the obsession with celebrities' cars, the predominance of Harvard grads in the TV-writing business, the fascination with live police-car chases. Chris Eigeman (the cocky guy in Whit Stillman films) underplays the New Yorker perfectly, avoiding the overly neurotic. And in what may be the bravest turn ever, Jennifer Grey plays herself, with lots of jokes about her nose job, past boyfriends and desperate desire to be recognized...
John Madden, Shakespeare in Love, John Madden did a beautiful job directing Shakespeare in Love. The film has been put together with so much verve and confidence that it can veer crazily from slapstick comedy to touching romance without sacrificing a whit of stylistic consistency. I truly do not believe that it could have been directed better; however, the film was just not as technically and logistically demanding as the two WWII pictures. Though it may be unfair to compare apples and oranges, the Academy can and will--such is Madden's misfortune...
...claimants out in the cold. To change that, you need to be in the right movement at the right time in the right place. The Kurds in northern Iraq were just another bunch of bickering agitators until the U.S. needed them to challenge Saddam Hussein. No one cared a whit for the Kosovars until Slobodan Milosevic ground them into the dirt. (It obviously helps to be the victim of a reviled dictator.) But Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka: Your moment has yet to arrive...
...only requirement for membership is a minimum $100 investment, says Co-Chair Charles W. "Whit" Collier...
...outline, Pleasantville sounds like the most derivative movie of all time: a bit of Back to the Future (teen time travel), a whit of The Wizard of Oz (the color of dreams), a plot from The Purple Rose of Cairo (with actor Jeff Daniels linking two stories of real and reel life), a lot from The Truman Show (except that here everyone in town believes in the grand fiction of a perfectly ordered society). But Ross, who helped create two other fantasies of displacement, Big and Dave, has more in mind: Follow your heart, not the rules...