Rumours can be cruel. The ones concerning Meryl Streep has her locked in a permanent half-nelson with her ego, or pontificating from a Beverly Hills soap box. This from a woman who once said “You can’t get spoiled if you do your own ironing” and whose latest role is as a zealous zombie. Hardly the [...]
“He’s just another California blonde – throw a stick at Malibu and you’ll hit six of him”. Those are the words of a studio executive whose fate goes unrecorded. The California blonde, however, managed to leave Malibu and got a job. His name is Robert Redford. Unlike other stars, the Redford personality remains firmly under [...]
Gary Oldman was covered in pus. It was the middle of the night, he was wearing a rubber costume and fangs. Welcome to Hollywood. The search was on for an insomniac dermatologist, a man to cure those troublesome nocturnal pimples. This being America, one was located, and Oldman elaborates, “We went to this guys house [...]
The Monopoly-board opulence of a Mayfair club provides a strange choice of surrounding for an audience with Spike Lee. Port, Perrier and designer toilet paper seem somehow wrong for a man better known for decrying privilege and prejudice. I make a mental note to voice this, but forget when the waiter offers more Moet. So [...]
Harvey Keitel does not suffer fools. Scowling and dishevelled, he sits there exuding the feeling of a man employing a well practised detachment to wrong-foot the media. Try, for example, researching his career in a quest for journo-friendly quotes, and you may as well be looking for Royal Mint safe combinations. The man is an [...]
TOM Hanks was wearing a dress. Slingbacks too, and a gauche perm of the type usually restricted to a Rotarians dinner dance. Shocked? I wasn’t, because this was 1980 and the actor was toiling in a minor cross-dressing sitcom. It was TV for TV’s. Since then he has swapped tailors and moved into movies. His [...]
LASHED to a slab, Tony Dogs refuses to squeal. The vice is turned, crushing his head tighter. His eye pops loose. Now Tony will never talk again. The fate of Tony is not out of place in Casino, nor is it alien to the other films which comprise the work of Martin Scorsese. Violent, explosive [...]