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Pam Grier the star of blaxploitation movies such as Foxy Brown and Coffy returns in Quentin Tarantino’s new movie Jackie Brown playing a flight attendant involved in a drug smuggling scheme. The movie also stars Samuel L. Jackson and Bridget Fonda. The movie is based on Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch ... Tom Petty plays a city mayor in The Postman, a futuristic action movie directed by Kevin Costner. The movie will contain a 15 minute action scene filmed “live on the net” ... Aretha Franklin will reprise her Blues Brothers role in Blues
Brothers 2000... Danny DeVito directs Robert De Niro and himself in The Little Things about a cop duo chasing a serial killer... Tom Cruise plays the legendary record producer Phil Spector in the upcoming biopic ... Demi Moore will star in a Woody Allen movie... the Randy Newman score was dumped by director Wolfgang Petersen from the movie Air Force One eight weeks before opening day. Jerry Goldsmith (Aliens) was given four weeks to write a 63 minute score ... Sting provides the music for Disne y animated film The Prince and the Pauper...
Oprah Winfrey (The Colour Purple) returns to historical drama with the Jonathan Demme directed Beloved about post-Civil War slavery in Ohio ... Fargo producer Ethan Coen will publish a book of short stories in 1998 ... Stanley Kubrick movie Eyes Wide Shut has been shooting for over a year and scenes have now had to be reshot with Sydney Pollack substituting for Harvey Keitel who jumped ship. The next projects for Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are on hold while Kubrick directs as many as 93 takes of one scene ... the next project for Nicole Kidman is a Noel Coward comedy Quadrille... Bruce Willis is expected to get $25 million if he is willing to do Diehard 4.
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Rip It Up, Issue 241, 1 September 1997, Page 38
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