Bette Midler is saying goodbye to a Vogue writer at the door of her suite at the Four Seasons hotel when I arrive. She doesn't know if I'm here to interview her or to make some delivery, so she doesn't react. "Guess I'm next," I say. Bette says nothing, just turns from the door and walks into the bedroom to talk to her husband, performance artist and commodities broker Martin von Haselberg (aka Harry Kipper of The Kipper Kids). Ten minutes later, she comes out, looking for food and ready to talk. She didn't talk much for her last two movies, Stella and Scenes From a Mall, and neither did very well.
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It's a great time to be a patriot in Hollywood, if the turnout for producer Jerry Weintraub's bash for George Bush is any indication.
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The ever-controversial director of films about obsession is back as the screenwriter of his friend Warren Beatty's film about Bugsy Siegel. Here Toback lets fly on topics ranging from the "demonic" gangster he created for Beatty, to the acid origins of his own dark vision of life, to the two-year sex orgy he lived through in L.A., to the trouble he's had thanks to Spy magazine.
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Philip Noyce, Cameron Crowe and others play My Favorite Scene with Movieline.
The co-founder of X, one of L.A.'s best bands has a ranch far outside of town. In between making movies and music, he gets back to good old country comforts.
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That's what Jodie Foster believes, and certainly her attitude helps to explain how she's weathered the jump from child star to teen fox, from Oscar-winning adult actress to feature film director. Here, she talks with Lawrence Grobel about her new picture Little Man Tate, magic in life, and violence in the movies.
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Maverick moviemaker Henry Jaglom teeters precariously close to mainstream recognition. Will his two new films be his breakthrough or seal his fate as a cult curiosity?
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In A Different Light
The stylist has the silky Armani suits all lined up on their hangers, the makeup artist has spread out the cosmetics like otherworldly candy in front of the enormous mirror, the photographer and his assistant are strategizing out in the grey morning light that's pouring dimly through the summer "marine layer"-- that pesky cloud cover people outside California don't seem to know about. Everybody is waiting, a little worried Helen Hunt will be late because she's been having her hair colored for a new role since six this morning. And everybody's a little curious about what color the hair will be.
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Producers George Jackson and Doug McHenry stand out from the current wave of African-American filmmakers in Hollywood - they came up through the studios. With New Jack City they had their first hit. Now they're following up with House Party II.
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In the memorable opening sequence from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, the already fortyish James Stewart, playing a high-ranking detective in the San Francisco Police Department, leaps across an alleyway to a sharply sloping, tiled rooftop approximately five feet away while pursuing a criminal.
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In a town where a Best Actress Oscar nominee--namely, Geena Davis--arrives at the Academy Awards dressed up as an ostrich (or was she actually wearing a dead ostrich?), traditional notions of glamour have clearly gone the way of the emu. We applaud the stars on the following pages for their more restrained plumage. If you think that orange suits and skintight faux leopard sequined dresses aren't restrained, we ask you to think back to the Tony Awards ceremony at which Glenn Close wore a gown with a bodice made out of week-old lettuce.
If you don't remember her as Rizzo, the knocked-up she-hood from Grease, or the fat girl revenger from "The Girl Most Likely to...," then you may have trouble placing those chipmunk cheeks that prompted a thousand "I know you...wait a minute...you're..."
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What single human being said all of the following:
• "Glamour is locked in the closet and someone has misplaced the key,"
• "I don't want to hold a mirror up to life as it is. I just want to show the part which is attractive,"
• "Glamour is important be-cause it gives the average guy a chance to dream of getting out, the average woman a chance to dream of getting her hair done and wearing a pearl necklace."
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