Word: winona
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...case of Winona Ryder, convicted last week of grand theft and vandalism for walking out of a Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, Calif., with $5,560 of swank swag, there are plenty of easy answers. Just look at her screen roles, which range from the disturbed (Beetlejuice and Girl, Interrupted) to the homicidal (Heathers and The Crucible). Or consider her loopy childhood in a Northern California commune with parents who smoked a lot of pot and chose Timothy Leary to be her godfather...
...CONVICTED. WINONA RYDER, 31, doe-eyed star of The Age of Innocence and The Crucible; for vandalism and shoplifting more than $5,000 worth of merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue; in Beverly Hills. Ryder pleaded not guilty, claiming she was under instruction from a director to research a role in an upcoming movie, although which director and film remains unclear. Prosecutors said they would not ask for a jail sentence...
Even jury duty in Los Angeles is glamorous. During jury selection at the shoplifting trial of actress Winona Ryder, at least half a dozen people connected to the film industry went through voir dire. At the end of the process, Peter Guber, former chairman of Sony Pictures, ended up being impaneled. Guber revealed that while he was head of the studio, his company made a film with Ryder, but after promising he could be objective, he was selected to serve. Guber, who heads Mandalay Entertainment, will have to lay off Daily Variety for a while. The judge has forbidden jurors...
Most of the time, I try to hide this habit under a veneer of respectability—stacking a New Yorker on top of a New York, or nodding agreeably at what Cindy Adams has to say about poor Winona Ryder’s rehabilitation while standing next to the World News section at the Coop newsstand. And even there, celebrity-mania gives you a different way of looking at the world: Sure, Dick Cheney is running our country and President Bush is fighting his father’s war, but, more importantly, have you noticed how this administration...
...trouble with movies is movie stars. They hate their trailers; they hate their scripts; they especially dislike directors like Viktor Taransky (Al Pacino)--once aspiring, now merely woebegone. He yearns to replace his current star, a marvelously hateful Winona Ryder, with a more pliable model. A few keystrokes using a new computer program--click, click, click--and--presto!--he has the perfectly beautiful but only virtually real Simone (a digitally modified Rachel Roberts...