By Andrew Sarris 3/06/00 12:00am

The Next Best Friend: Everett’s New Gal-Pal Pales

John Schlesinger’s The Next Best Thing , from a screenplay by Thomas Ropelewski, seems to have been designed to exploit Rupert Everett’s overtly gay persona, so winningly projected in My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997). At first glance, Mr. Everett’s Robert, a Los Angeles landscaper, seems to share with Madonna’s Abbie the same sort of gay-best-friend Read More

By Rex Reed 2/21/00 12:00am

They Wanna Be Millionaires! … The Hit Man Next Door

They Wanna Be Millionaires!

Of all the telephone invasions that disrupt my peace and threaten my sanity, none are more irritating than the bogus stockbrokers with endless ways of “investing” the money I already don’t have in the first place. These pests call frequently, offering a smorgasbord of get-rich schemes for hard-earned cash only a Read More