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In Seven Years in Tibet Brad Pitt plays an Austrian mountaineer who ends up in Indian internment camp during World War 11. After escaping to Tibet he becomes the' Dalai Lama's tutor ... in - - - • ' ■ Mad City directed by the legendary Constantin Costa-Gavras (Missing) John Travolta plays a museum security guard who loses it and takes hostages while Dustin Hoffman is a tabloid journalist ... Daniel Day Lewis is an IRA soldier and a boxer in the Jim Sheridan (My Left Foot, In The Name of the Father) directed movie The Boxer ... to put James Ellroy's period 50s novel L.A. Confidential on the big screen, two unknown actors (for narrative reasons we’re told) from downunder Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce were caste as
rival cops . alongside : corrupt cop Kevin Spacey, scandal mag photographer Danny DeVito and hooker Kim Basinger ... former rapper and Calvin Klein model Mark Wahlberg plays a pom star in the late 70s horny disco days ; of : Boogie Nights. Young writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson works with an ensemble cast including Julianne Moore, William H. Macy and Don Cheadle. Wardrobe provided Wahlberg with a prosthetic penis for the part ... and there’s more 70s movies in the pipeline — watch for Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco (New York’s notorious Studio 54) and Todd Hayne’s Velvet Goldmine (glam rock)... Xena star Lucy Lawless makes it into US magazine’s “Cool Stars" in their “Hot TV"
issue. Look out for another spin-off — The Young Hercules ... Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan will work together in the New Line Cinema movie The Women ... on his summer holidays Noah Wyle (ER) acted in The Myth of Fingerprints, a low budget Big Chill-style reunion movie he helped to finance. It’s all good news — he fell in love with his makeup artist Tracy Warbin and Wyle is getting good reviews for his big screen debut... veteran movie director John Frankenheimer (Manchurian Candidate) continues to direct historical dramas for Ted Turner's TNT movie channel, the latest is George Wallace... creating a buzz in Oz is homegrown Doing Time For Patsy Cline starring Richard Roxburgh, Mirana Otto and Matt Day ... Sydney Lumet's latest New York movie is Night Falls on Manhattan starring Andy Garcia, Richard Dreyfuss and Lena Olin.
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Rip It Up, Issue 242, 1 October 1997, Page 38
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