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Starring: Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo, Fairuza Balk, Avery Brooks
Review: Norton stars as an ex-skinhead trying to save his brother (Furlong) from a life of
hate crimes. And if that sounds hard-hitting, you should hear the backstage bitching. Kaye, a British
commercial director making his feature debut, dumped approximately $1 million of his own money into the project.
When he turned in his first director's cut to New Line, the studio put together its
own version (with extensive input from Norton). During the summer, Kaye took on New Line president Mike De Luca
with a series of one-page ads in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, which contained cryptic messages and quotes
from Abraham Lincoln and John Lennon. "I thought they were funny," says De Luca, who fired back with his own ads.
"We knew what we were getting into when we hired Tony." Kaye's not laughing. "If somebody takes my
material and manipulates it, then I don't have authorship of it," says Kaye, who as of press time had decided to remove
his name from the film after the studio chose to release its version. "I'll regret
it" if Kaye removes his name, says De Luca, "because I think it taints the movie in an unfair way." ( article from Entertainment Weekly )
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler, Jerry Reed, Fairuza Balk
Review: Reteaming with the director who transformed him from an obnoxious frat boy into a leading man in The Wedding
Singer, Sandler stars in this Louisiana-based football farce as a slow-witted water boy who becomes a
tackling machine. To balance out his spasmodic shenanigans, the flick offers a love interest (Balk) and an
overprotective Cajun mama (Bates) who can't bear to see her son leave the nest.
"It's a big comedy with poignant moments," says Coraci, who plans to add more romance to the final edit,
since test audiences swooned at Sandler's scenes with Balk. Oscar winner Bates did some balking herself
at first. "It didn't seem like my kind of movie," she admits. "I didn't know much
about Adam Sandler, but my niece said, 'He's fabulous. You have to do this.' I took a hard look at the script and
found myself laughing hysterically." ( article from Entertainment Weekly )
Spelling It Out
It's not every Hollywood actress who owns a witchcraft store. But then, Fairuza Balk is hardly like every Hollywood actress. With a sultry voice and turquoise eyes no colored contacts could ever re-create, the 24-year-old balk has become Hollywood's seemingly most depressed steadily working actress. After the low-key Imaginary Crimes, in which she played Harvey Keitel's depressed daughter, and Things To Do in Denver When You're Dead, in which she played a teen junkie, Balk cast a spell in the cult fave The Craft (which led her to become involved with Panpipes, the Hollywood occult shop she owns).
Following that she played Marlon Brando's half-human/half-cat-thing daughter in The Island of Dr. Moreau. No wonder she found herself getting phone calls from people casting "death-worshipping suicidals."
"I always get the ‘goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death," she insists, inhaling deep from her cigarette. Then she allows, "I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most."
Where did she this dark nature come from? "My family is basically Gypsies - for real," says Balk, who ended her structured education in grade nine, deciding she just didn't fit in. Her father was absent early on, and her mother traveled with her in tow from California to Canada to England. As far as Balk is concerned, she doesn't really fit in in Hollywood, either. "People don't talk to me the way they would other people," she says of her experience at events like premieres. "They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me."
it's hard to imagine people will find Balk any more approachable after the release of American History X, in which she plays Edward Norton's Shit-kicking, shaved-head, white-supermacist girlfriend, Stacey. "It was really hard to find her in me," says the actress. "Basically, she's the scum of the earth". To prepare, Balk found herself some skinheads to hang with in Orange County, California, where she attended white-power rallies and music gigs. "It's very testosterone-driven," she notes. "Three hundred shirtless guys jumping around, slammming into each other, and then they go ‘fag bashing.' I don't need to point out the irony in that." What did Balk think of the quirkily handsome Norton? "I would do anything to work with him again," she responds. "And by the way, that's not ass-kissing. I want people to respect him." What's more, Balk also wants a little respect herself. "I know what's going on inside her," she says, pointing to her head. "You can't touch this. I'm solid."
( article from Movieline )
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