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SILVER SCREEN GEMS

WHAT'S AT THE MOVIES    by Harry Haun

Debbie Allen has temporarily tabled acting and choreographing to take up movie-producing with director (and co-producer) Steven Spielberg. Venture One is titled Amistad, after the Spanish slave ship that in 1839 was taken over by Cinque (Djimon Hounsou) and 52 other African captives. She hired two Brits to play U.S. Presidents: Nigel Hawthorne as Martin Van Buren and Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams. The DreamWorks Pictures film also stars Matthew McConaughey and Morgan Freeman.
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Sean Mathias, who helmed Broadway's Indiscretions, is also trying on a new hat - that of movie director - bringing to the screen Bent, Martin (A Madhouse in Goa) Sherman's play about the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, starring Brian Webber and Clive Owens. Sir Ian McKellen, who won a S.W.E.T. Award originating the lead role in London in 1979, contributes a cameo to the MGM film. 
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Webber(l.) and Owens star in Bent


Broadway's Tony winning Hamlet, Ralph Fiennes, and newcomer Cate Blanchett co-star in Fox Searchlight's Oscar and Lucinda as a pair of star crossed lovers bucking Victorian society. The director, Gillian Armstrong, staged My Brilliant Career and the last Little Women. 
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Blanchett and Fiennes in Oscar and Lucinda

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(l.-r.): Daniel Day Lewis and Emily Watson star in The Boxer
The violent streets of Belfast serve as backdrop for Universal's The Boxer, a love story directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day Lewis and Emily Watson.

Meg Ryan is the voice of Anastasia
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John Cusack is both seen and heard on the holiday movie screens: In Twentieth Century Fox's animated version of Anastasia, he supplies the voice for the con artist who concocts this fabled lost Russian princess (Meg Ryan).
Cusack's visual appearance is in Warner Brother's Clint Eastwood directed Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, playing a Town and Country scribe who gets an unexpectedly deep peek into Savannah sleaze; Kevin Spacey and Jude Law co-star.

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