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Show Sundance Film Fest! See Page 2 February 2, 1996 {Grapevine Whois the author of the book “The Grapes of Wrath’? See answer on page 4, Winners and Losers Emma Thompson wonthe awardfor best motion picture sereenplay for “Sense and Sensibility” at the 53rd Annual Golden Globe Awards this month in Beverly ee Hills, Calif. “It’s horribly gratifying. It's revolting. I'm bloated with pride. I’m hoping the swelling subsides soon,” she said, bursting with mock enthusiasm backstage. (The film was also namedbest drama.) — Nobel Prize-winning poet Derek Walcott is being sued by an ex-studentwhosayshethreatened to flunk her if she didn’t y) have sex with him. In hersuit, Nicole Niemi adds that she dropped out of Boston University because of his alleged come-ons. Walcott, 66, couldn’t be reached, but a university lawyer called Niemi — wedandin her m out —a “frustrated playwright” to punish Walcott for not producEmma Thompson ing her play. In 1982, the poet was Officially admonished forallegedly demandingsex of a female student at Harvard. He won the Nobel Prize in 1992. Mother Knows Best? Macaulay Culkin andhissix sibs have lined upon their mother’s side in her custody battle with their father, Kit Culkin, and will testify against him in court if | need be. So says mom, Patricia Brentrup. She says the kid movie star was so turned off to his old man that he asked her to change their phone number so he wouldn't have to talk to him. “It came to the point where Macreally had to hang up on him,” she said. Kit is credited with managing a $50 mil career that made Macaulay the most successful kid actor since Shirley Temple. “Mac can fire his father,” Brentrup said. “His father doesn’t understand this. It could cometo that. Macis very clear on that.” Brentrup says that the situation has discombobulated the kids. Macaulay Culkin Macaulay, she Says, has dyed his hair purple and graffitied his apartment; he and his bros have been throwing beer parties and getting poor school grades; a bro was thrown out of an exclusive private school and a sister thrice has switched schools : : Mirror Mirror Nicolas Cage posesfor the cameras backstage with his award at the Golden Globe Awards. Cage won the Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama, for his work in the film “Leaving Las Vegas.” — They've got money and fame, theyget the best restaurant tables, but somecelebsstill think of themselves as the geeky kid with braces and tend to focus on their perceived flaws. Hugh Grant: "I volunteered to do a nude scenein ‘“‘Sirens’’... but after I disrobed, my offer was re- fused. ‘Perhaps,’ the director said, ‘we'll do it in clothes after all."” Nicolas Cage nave these Halle Berry: “When I was doing “Boomerang” with Eddie Murphy, he nicknamed me Seor — because I have little mustache.” Uma Thurman;“I didn't completely belong at any of the schools I went to. I had a funny name, funny face, big nose, and people told me I was more ugly thanpretty.” Sandra Bullock: “I big piano-playing hands. I feel like I should be picking potatoes.” Kim Basinger: “Classmates made derogatory remarks about my big, fat lips.” Rebert Redford: “I was a freckle-faced, ordinarykind of redheaded kid that people made fun of because myhair was so weird.’ Reports compiled from Tribune and Newswire services. 96 ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’: A 20-Year Mania By Bob Thomas Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES(AP) — “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” the movie that will notdie, is getting anotherleaseonlife with a Collector's Laserdisc Edition complete with two music numbers cut outof the original movie, For $125, “Rocky Horror” aficionados can thrill to the moviein its pristine form. The FoxVideo package includes the numbers “‘Superheroes” and “Once ina While,”as well as a karaoke, 24-carat soundtrack CD, a new book about the film's cult, original trailers and TV spots, a scrapbook and more. The man who brought “Rocky Horror” to the screen is Lou Adler, owner of Ode Records, manager of Carole King, Cheech and Chong and others, and long a powerin the music business. He also operates the Hollywood nightclub Roxy, where many rock acts got their starts. The Roxyis also where the “Rocky Horror” phenomenon began. On a recent afternoon, Adler ventured in fromhis Malibu hometo the Sunset Strip club and related the history of thefilm, an initial flop that he says has earned a 60-seat house and created such a sensation thatit moved to the 500-seat Kings Road Theater whereit wasselling out. Adler's impression of the show? “One,that the music wasreally good, lyrically and musically. Also that Tim Curry was overwhelming.” The producer came, saw and made a deal for rights in the rest of the world — all in one day. Adler brought the show to his newly opened Roxy, whereit ran to packed houses for 10 months. Executives from 20th Century “Thefilm stays contemporary and has an energy because ofthe audience, The participation lines change according to what's happening at thatparticular time in history.” Lou Adler, the man who brought “Rocky Horror"to the screen $150 million. The figure seems inflated, but then whatisn’t in show business? It started in 1973, when Adler got call from actress Britt Eklund, motherof his oldest child, Britt Eklund. She wasliving in Londonat the time. “She said, ‘You oughtto come over here and look at something that has becomethe hottest thing in London,” he recailed. Eklund wasreferringto “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” created by Richard O’Brien as a tribute to the horror movie. It had opened in Fox came to the showand madea film deal. Next came Broadway “It was a disaster as far as the critics were concerned,” Adler recalled with a grimace. “Weclosed in two weeks. It was myfault. I never should have gone to Broadway. It would have been better off-Broadway or off-offBroadway. “Also I took the old Belasco Theater and turnedit into a nightclub like the Roxy. The critics didn't like that at all.” people subscribe to The Salt Lake Tribune ot et News every weekday, 227,776 on Suridays... IND O IT WHY - CALL 237-2900. Se ; oy Undismayed, Adler took the company ,to London to make the film. Tim Curry was‘a must("I wouldn’t have made the movie with out him”) as Dr. Frank N. Furter, the frans- vestite from the galaxy of Transylvania who conducts maniacal experiments.Forthe inriocent couple who blunderinto the doctdt’s bis zarre laboratory, Adler chose two newcomers, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick. As a movie in 1975, “The Rocky HorrorPicture Show” bombed as badly as it had ‘on Broadway. “Thefirst preview in Santa Barbara Was disastrous; we lost 75 percent of the audié¢hte before the film finished,” Adler rematked. “The cards(filled out by preview attendees) were more like death threats than anything the studio had seen. Adler and companyconceived the notion of midnightscreenings. Tests were attempted in New York's Greenwich Village and in Austin, Texas. Attendance grew at the weekend screenings — and the same people were teturning. Over the years, “Rocky Horror” has developed into something more than a midnight Screening. Transvestites in Greenwich Village beganthe trend of dressing up for the evenis, then others followed suit, appearing in the costumes of their favorite characters in the film. Why has the “Rocky Horror” mania coritinued so long? “The film stays contemporary and has &n energy because of the audience,” Adler feplied. “The participation lines change according to what’s happeningat that particular time in history. r |
