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...made up his mind); it's set in Paris, Venice and New York City; and he has punched up the pulchritude level, casting Julia Roberts, Drew Barrymore and a re-emergent GOLDIE HAWN (getting a leg up in Paris) rather than more cerebral regulars Judy Davis or Dianne Wiest. "This is different from anything Woody has done before," says producer Jean Doumanian. "Goldie and Woody were magical together." With strings attached, of course...
...weeks of Oscar hype with an unsuspenseful flourish, favorite Forrest Gump topped contender Pulp Fiction for Best Picture, winning a grand total of six awards to Pulp's lone statuette. Tom Hanks (Gump) was Best Actor and Jessica Lange (Blue Sky) Best Actress; Martin Landau (Ed Wood) and Dianne Wiest (Bullets over Broadway) took Supporting honors...
Woody Allen rounds up the usual show-biz subjects -- egomaniacal star (Dianne Wiest in a great, bold comic performance), earnest young playwright, desperate producer -- and an underworld hit man (Chazz Palminteri) who has what none of them has: theatrical genius. He teaches them all a thing or two about art and life in Allen's happiest, most assured comedy in many years...
...Ashlee R. Wiest-Laird, the President of the United Ministry, believes that the church has adapted to maintain its place in the community...
...feeling of a farce. Shayne declares passionately that he's an artist, that he won't change to pander to the commercial--his goal is "transform men's souls"--and promptly gives away every ideal he's histrionically declared as fast as anyone will take them. Diane Wiest is hilarious as the ridiculous Sinclair, speaking and moving as if she were an alcoholic Lady Macbeth who'd be king herself rather than any dopey husband. Late to the first rehearsal, she intones, with terrible drama: "My pedicurist had a stroke!" (as he was doing her left foot, she thunders...