

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
Blackmail, Deceit: An Ideal Husband
At a time of alien hybrids and cross-dressing spies, it’s a pleasant relief to meet some real people on the screen, even if we have to return to the year 1895 to do it. In Oliver Parker’s superbly stylish, literate and immensely entertaining adaptation of An Ideal Husband , the Read More
Now that the 1997 Academy Award nominations have been announced, it is as good a time as any for me to predict the winners in the major categories, along with my own choices if I were eligible to vote. To begin with, Titanic seems to be as overwhelming a favorite to win best picture as Read More