Show Page 16 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Tuesday April 9 1996 ONE BIG HAPPY Saul Zaentz tries to beat odds again with ‘The English Patient’ KOTMEKMESirroONMi HtmTusxKimxKs UNREAL-- ' TVDflfTME WE TRY ID WHICH CATHY 4 00 Mi: CONNECTED 10 IRS EXPLOKO JUPITER ON NASA WEB SITE LEirEMAANfS "TOP 0 LISTS HR JANUARY 4:0km WEB SITE TO CHCCK SUES- -I TIM ABOUT TM fWWI A READ ZOPm WEATHER Ml FIJI CHECKED WANDERED AROUND LOUVRE JOINED CHAT ROOM HSGUSSW& BEET FARM INS Ml TOLEDO IZIAM : B3CNH - IZ'ttMi : RECIPE fOR OUACAMOLE VISITED HOME RASE OF ML SCOUT TROUP ORDERED SIX CD'S AND AN EVEnMB GOWN 10 : HAD Hm i five-mon- ONUNE SCRABBLE WITH COUPLE VISITED LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PLAYED ROME (AP) — la desert cavern built inside book-lovin- g Rome’s Cineritta studio a white-beardfilm producer sits on a rocty fiberglass outcrop He looks on benignly while a piece of pure literature becomes a movie Actor Ralph Fiennes totters down a wooden ramp for this scene in “The English Patient” the 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje “Is that all right?” murmurs the director Anthony Minghella after a take The producer Saul Zaentz 74 nods indulgently “Yeah that’s fine” says the man in the white linen jacket and hiking shoes th After a odyssey of filming in Tunisia and Italy and financial difficulties that briefly shut the final scenes were shot last down month for Zaentz’s latest movie It is a typical project from the producer of “One Flew Over a Cuckoo’s Nest” and die “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” who evokes an earlier movie moguls age of independent single-mindHe is a highbrow version of those movie kings who devours books and makes movies out of the ones he loves A former professional gambler Zaentz is gambling on a lyrical episodic and oblique novel much of which is told through an ambiguous figure mutilated and from horrible bums He is gambling on a British director whose only two previous mayor films were “Truly Madly Deeply” and “Mr Wonderful” He is gambling about $5 million of his own and his partners’ money “it’s not a picture” Zaentz acknowledged recently over lunch “I’m sure there will be a lot of people who will not get ft but a lot of people who will” A hit of people didn't get his last effort “At Play in the Fields of the Lord” based on the Peter Mathiessen novel lost its backers $20 million about half of it belonging to Zaentz “The English Patient” won the 1992 Booker prize and is the kind of novel that attracts passionate devotees One was Minghella who introduced Zaentz to the book and wrote the script The novel is centered on four characters in a ruined Tuscan villa as the Germans retreat up the Italian peninsula during World War II There is Hana (Juliette Binoche) the Canadian nurse who stayed in the villa after it was abandoned as a military hospital the patient for whom she cares (Fiennes) a onetime divert explorer and sus- ed AQMZX DOWNLOADED ed TAROT CARDS READ BEETLE BAILEY bed-ridd- HAGAR THE HORRIBLE en AP photo The English Patient’ is centered on four characters m a ruined Tuscan villa in the Germans retreat up the Italian peninsula during World War II pected spv Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe) a obsessed with Hana who has had his thief-turned-s- thumbs cut oft and Kip (Naveen Andrews) a Sikh bomb disposal expert who has a love affair with Hana Minghella said he smoothed out the book's “beautiful mosaic quality” into a more linear narrative “which is mysterious but not oblique and overcerebral” He also fleshed out a flashback love affair wife between the patient and a played by Kristin Scott Thomas Ondaatje who read drafts of the script called the final product a “memory of the book” But ft maintains the intimate story of four people affected by the context of war said the writer The Sri Lankan-bor- n novelist spoke from Toronto his adopted home Zaentz notes he has beaten the odds before “Cuckoo’s Nest” was the sevenih-large- st grossing movie in its era he said “A very wise man told me one lime that the first thing in this business is to break even He said if you can do it making the pictures you warn to make it's a great victory I've held on to that" Zaentz has given up some independence Miramax invested S27 million and he has had to resori to a completion bond — insurance that the film won’t go over budget fellow-explore- r's Names in the news’ Sarandon returns to screen as an insect PEANUTS entertainment industry The ceremony was taped at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium and will be aired April 23 mi Fox NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh from her Oscar win for “Dead Man Walking Susan Sarandon returns io the tiercel t— this time as a very Edwards will soon have fling on-scre- NEW YORK —- (AP) Anthony Edwards'- - large insect Sarandon who took best actress honors at last month’s Academy Awards is the voice of Miss Spider in Disney’s n animated feature “James And The Giant Peach" live-actio- MOTHER GOOSE AND GRIMM which opens Friday The movie based on a popular children's book by Roald Dahl is about “overcoming fear and solving your own problem” Sarandon says in the April 13 issue of TV Guide “James and the Giant Peach” is about a lonely boy An angry rhino ate his parents some huge bugs and of course a giant peach Bassett named best lead actress PASADENA Calif (AP) — Angela Bassett whose career has FOXTROT RMER1MM) A MRSTMKHDtE ToSEETbO MMT OH MAN1 NOT ASWHC SALES MW OMTWCSt SALESM( RtPNES taken her from the projects to RotfR RoGES MEN LEAVE AND CANT 1HFY SEX 1HRT I'M tuSYS MMTCMT THEY MouND BN8 A YEAR MSTEAPaF EVERY WHY CANT WHY X 0C Broadway and Hollywood won top honors at the NAACP Image Awards for her performance as a WRI PM WRTOnatwr' EVER I scorned wife in “Wailing to Exhale” Bassett was named best lead actress and Loretta Divine best SAYNa herdws WHY supporting actress for their rules in the film about the lives and love of four close friends "Waiting to Exhale” was named best motion picture of the year Saturday at the 27th annual awards ceremony which honors actors musicians and others who positively portray blacks in the 2 REAL LIFE ADVENTURES CLOSE TO HOME 1 Matthew Graacvetter's latest book “Bridge Additions 96“ (Granosener Books: $1595 ppk 800-525-47- MDMsdHptoeMMFvouieurtwrtduclviBaha ’ i J at Ms iwnHObn n f-- c ht Ross stand with Dr (actor George Clooney) But Greene he is the one I would want to be able to have great sex with — and lake home to my mother” As for Edwards whose character is going through a divorce he says that he'll soon have an Shawn ready to make a name as playwright NEW YORK (AP) — Fans lend to recognize the balding pudgy Wallace Shawn for his performances in “The Princess Bride” “Manhattan” and 39 n other films but he's less well-know- is a playwright Perhaps that's because Shawn's plays are given much more attention in Europe than in the United there is a danger of a lethal spade sw itch by the defenders One line is to play a club to dummy's queen followed by the diamond jack Even if that finesse loses to West's queen he might not be able to attack spades with effect In the book Granovetter says that the bed liar technically is to cash the diamond ace before declarer-pla- y sure True West might throw a dub as he has the spade ace as an entry But East might find the spade switch anyway Granovebcr recommends playing a diamond to dummy's 10 immediately without cashing the ace first He potffis out that ft w ill This deal highlights a useful principle West leads his founh-highrheart against your contract of three Last play mg the queen st RraPy twnity pood for thu TV parental lock Guide in its April 13 issue “I asked all of my friends “If you had to sleep with one of the doctors who would ft be?’ They all said Greene” Margulies who plays Nurse Carol Hathaway says women are smart “They say ‘Oh I could have a r This book is aimed at serious partnerships It contains many good ideas and a few w fth which 1 don't agree at aO! 144-pag- r one” Julianna Margulies tells TV er if you lose a diamond trick Do yon like authors who tell you what they think you should be doing often with no discussion of the pros and cons of their proposals? 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