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Show Captured! See Page 9 Mel Gorhamin “Bluein the Face.” Seepage2. November21, 1995 Scuttlebutt Speaking of... Phyllis Schlafly, leading critic of the feminist movement is, ironically, a lawyer. She spoke at WeberState University this month. ——— ww Gary Oldman, on why hetook therole of oversexed, guil ridden, Puritan preacher Arthur Dimmesdale in “The Scarlet Letter’’: “It meantI didn’t have to go in and play another psychopathic killer.” — Stealing a page from the “Melrose Place’ playbook, rumorshaveit that Mariel Hemingway’s character will exit the middling CBS evening soap “Central Park West” by departing for an insane asylum after an on-screen nervous breakdown.(In reallife, the actress had been dissatisfied with howthe direction her character in the Darren Starr-produced drama was going.) Hem- Phyllis Schlafly ingway had played a magazine editor, Hmm, editor goes crazy, gets cartedoff into oblivion, never to be seen or heard from again? Here in the information business, that happens all the time,ha, ha. — A hair-raising revelation from the periodical Out West: “Camelhair brushes are not made of camel hair. They are usually made from thetails of squirrels.”” Post OJ. 0.J, Simpson made an impromptu phonecall to AP reporter Linda Deutsch this month to express his thanks for fair coverage of his trial a said he is encouraged by positive feedback heis . receiving from the public. — Misery pays. Just ask Marcia fm Clark. Pummeled raw when she # anchored the O.J. Simpsonprosecution team thatlostin a big way, the dividends may makeit all worth it. Clark will rake in $4.2 mil from Penguin USA for penning a tome about the whole mess, sources said.It’s the third most lucrative nonfiction book contract in the history of Ameriean publishing — after Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell. — Has Christopher Darden, the dashing 0.J. Simpson prosecutor who's done more with a pained look than anyonesince Elvis, supplanted John Kennedy as the bachelor of the moment? The 5 A rumorsarecertainly flying about 0.J. Simpson Darden’s doings, first with fellow prosecutor Marcia Clark and now with an it be? — Anita Hill. Sources in L.A. insist that Darden andHill, the Oklahoma law professor who madeaccusations of sexual harassment against Supretne Court Justice Ciarence Thomas during his Senate confirmation hearings, are an item. Exhibit A; She showedupatthe trial in early July, and it was reported that Dardenhad invited her. Exhibit B: They were spotted together recently at a Los Angeles tel. Exhibit C; The accused laughedoff talk of marriage to Clark by telling a friend, “Doesn't everybody know? I’mwith Anita Hill.” Darden's agent said: “Chris dates lotof girls.” Seeing Green Elizabeth Hifley is too hot ow — to handle for Newt Gingrich. TheTiodel Slash actress was supposed to pose with the speaker Of the House for the-cover of Newsweek's upcoming Newsmakers 100 issue, but Newt had second thoughts, The New York Daily News reported. A vi married Gingrich apparently was spooked that his preening with the single, attractive young woman might, you know, create the wrong impression, The Newsreported. Plus, it may have something to do with thefact that Hurley’s beau, Hugh Grant, was caught with a Hollywood hooker earlier this year. There's the rep to consider, after all. But a Gingrich spokesman is putting a different spin onit, telling the newspaper that the photo op wasonly an invitation and just didn't fit into the congressman's schedule “There was never any agreement to do the Newsweek cover,” the Elizabeth Hurley spokesmansaid, Natch. — Keen social observer Joey Adams; “I always thought it was so artistic the way the Army makestheir fatigues and their food the samecolor.” Reports compiled from Tribune and News wire services. Serial Killer Films Stalking Hollywood By Mark Caro Chicago Tribune Given the surprising box-office success of “Seven’’ — a grim movie abouta serialkiller fixated on the Seven Deadly Sins — one can only imaginethe kindsofstorylines currently being pitched to Hollywood dealmakers. Howabout “Capital Punishment,” in which noble detectivestrail a serial killer whocarves the names of state capitals into his victims “This one’s Montpelier, and he’s already done Salem and Springfield,” one cop might intone. “There are 47 to go!” Or “The Brady Brunch,” in which a cannibalistic killer preys on victims named Bobby Cindy, Peter, Jan, Greg, Marcia Those scenarios couldn't sound much sillier than the original outlines of the current spate of serial killer movies. A film in which each victim represents one of the Seven Deadly Sins and is killed in corresponding fashion? And this is meant seriously? Please Or consider “Virtuosity,” released in Au- gust, which pits Denzel Washington asa former cop against an android maniac (Russell Crowe) whose brain is programmed with 183 of history's most devilish minds. Also in the KTel Serial Killers’ Greatest Hits vein, the justreleased ‘‘Copycat” featuresa villain who imitates the crimes of John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer and other famous multiple murderers. Aserial killer, albeit a morerun-of-the-mill one played by Harry DeanStanton, fits into the plot of the new‘Never Talk to Strangers as well. Earlier this year, Ed Harris showed up recalls McNaughton, taking a break fromediting his upcomingfilm, “NormalLife.” “There were no monsters from outer space for that in “Just Cause” as what has becomea stock budget. What was horrific? This washorrific Now, McNaughtonsays, he receives three character: the crazed genius of a serial killer orfour serial-killer s whogivestips to law enforcement agents from behind bars. Serial killers have been appearing on film since Alfred Hitchcock's “The Lodger” (1926) and Fritz Lang’s *M" (1931), but their ascen dancyto the No. 1 slot on the movievillains chart has taken place over the past several years. Jason, Freddy and Michael from the Friday the 13th Nightmare on Elm Street” and “Halloween” movies also werese- rial killers in a way, but they were moreyour typical movie monsters taken to gory ex tremes. 7 The recent trailblazer for taking serial kill- ers seriously was John McNaughton’s low budget “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer which was completed in 1986 but didn’t re- ceive a wide releaseuntil 1990, whenit wound up on many10-best lists. McNaughton had gotten financing to makea horror film, but what he came back with was a disturbingly stoic look at a serial killer (played with chilling restraint by Michael Rooker) We had a $100,000 budget for its a week. somethingcalled ‘The Shredder,””’ “I just got hes turned it down. Henry” developed a cult following among film aficionadosandhorrorfans (director Jon Amiel cites it as an influenceinthe “Copycat press kit). A sequel for the same Chicago pro- duction company — MPI —is even in the works, with Chuck Naughtonat the helm Parello replacing Lambs,” which won 1991 Oscars forbest pic ture, actor (Anthony Hopkins) and actress (Jo die Foster). killers; The thriller featured two serial sicko on theloose andacapt cannibal in captivity who helps an FBI ¢ track him TheSilence of the Lambs” was actually a sequel to another movie (and book) that employed the using-one-serial-kiiler-to-catch-an- other trick: 1986 Manhunter” ‘Henry (based on Continued on page 10 TH] TOYSKFUS. &Be € SPORTS miRGGOBOM CAe Certain supplements not distributed, in all ress. REY lee emanive Mc. But the movie that establishedserial k ers as both a respectable and commercial su was Jonathan Demme's “TheSilence of Look for these money saving supplements inside Etc. SKI I got ‘Seven’ like a year and a half ago and |
