Saturday Night Live repertory debut
Ferrell makes his debut as an SNL repertory player after several guest star appearances. He hopes to help “rejuvenate” the show:
There are a lot of entertainment options on a Saturday night. I don’t think SNL was much of an option in the last two years. At least the people I hung out with didn’t watch it. Everyone said, ‘ “Saturday Night Live?” It’s bad.’ But it’s the type of show that always has the potential to regenerate itself and turn everything around.
Five other new rep players join the cast alongside four returnees.
Devil in a Blue Dress
Washington plays Ezekiel ‘Easy’ Rawlins in the crime drama Devil in a Blue Dress. Set in the 1940’s, Rawlins, a World War II veteran, returns home looking for a job. As a private investigator he takes on his first case which involves looking for a missing woman. With the war behind him, Rawlins steps into a new career full of corrupt cops, gangsters, and murder.
I really got into it as I did the research and started. I even went to Houston. I went to the Third Ward and I met guys who were kind of prominent in the neighborhood now. They introduced me to the old guys…
Seven
Pitt portrays a young and newly-married homicide detective in this psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher. He and his older partner played by Morgan Freeman investigate and hunt down a sadistic serial killer who murders his victims according to the seven deadly sins. Kevin Spacey plays the killer and Gwyneth Paltrow plays Pitt’s wife.
I certainly don’t have the answer, but maybe because being as tough as life is, seeing people go to these depths, it’s just fascinating. It’s horrifying but there’s fascination.
Hackers
In this action comedy directed by Iain Softley, Jolie plays Kate, the only girl in the group of hackers. which meets a new boy at school named Dade who is banned from computers until his 18th birthday because he got caught pulling off a major hack. Kate challenges him to a hacking competition. Soon the group discovers that they are the only ones that can stop top hacker, The Plague, and save the world. Also starring Jonny Lee Miller, Mathew Lilliard, and Fisher Stevens. What the movie makes her think of:
Well, oddly, love. That’s where I met Jonny, who is still a great friend. So I think of him when I think of that. Although, I’m sure the movie looks so ancient now, but we had a lot of fun making that.
A Bucket of Blood
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UN women’s rights speech
Clinton talks about women’s rights in a speech to the U.N. 4th World Conference on Women:
We focus world attention on issues that matter most in our lives — the lives of women and their families: access to education, health care, jobs and credit, the chance to enjoy basic legal and human rights and to participate fully in the political life of our countries. What we are learning around the world is that if women are healthy and educated, free from violence, and have a chance to work and earn as full and equal partners in society, their families will flourish. When families flourish, communities and nations do as well. Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights.
Xena: Warrior Princess debuts
The first episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, an action/adventure fantasy television series starring Lawless and co-starring Renee O’Connor and Ted Raimi, premieres on USA Network. The show, created by Rob Tapert and John Schulian, is a spin-off of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
Speaking of the role, Lawless says:
Xena’s a mystery. She has a certain mystique, she doesn’t give out too much, you don’t know too much about her thought processes. Which is why you watch, you know, she’s got the devil on her shoulder and you don’t know which way she’s going to flip because she’s always lived at the best on the edge.
One Sweet Day performance
Carey and Boyz II Men perform One Sweet Day at Madison Square Garden from the album Daydream.
Virtuosity
Washington plays Lt. Parker Barnes in the action sci-fi film Virtuosity. A program meant to help train police officers is created from the personalities of over 100 serial killers. Russell Crowe plays the program, which is somehow synthesized and processed into the real world, and it is up to Barnes to try and stop him. On taking part in the film:
It was fascinating. I said I don’t think that anybody has done this yet, and if we can do it right, if we can get the script right and he can get the technology right, then we’ll have something interesting.
Say It Ain’t So performance
Weezer performs Say It Ain’t So during The Late Show with David Letterman to promote their album The World Is Not Enough.
Crimson Tide
Washington plays Lt. Commander Ron Hunter in the action drama Crimson Tide. The U.S. Navy sends a nuclear ballistic submarine to intercept a possible launch from Russia. Captain Frank Ramsay, played by actor Gene Hackman, and Hunter do not agree with their orders and a mutiny within the sub is organized. On acting alongside Hackman:
I’d sit there sometimes and they’d almost have to go, ‘Denzel, your line.’ I was watching one of the great actors of all time.
Dont Take It Personal performance
Monica performs Don’t Take It Personal at the Soul Train Awards from the album Miss Thang.
Bedtime Stories performance
Madonna performs Bedtime Stories during the Brit Awards show to promote her album Bedtime Stories.
Criminal Hearts
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Tammy and the T-Rex
Walker plays Michael, the boyfriend of Tammy, who is bullied by a boy named Billy in Tammy and the T-Rex. When a violent fight with Billy leaves Michael comatose in the hospital, his brain is put inside an animatronic dinosaur. When Tammy realizes the dinosaur is Michael, she searches for a more suitable body for him.
Legends of the Fall
Pitt stars in this Western epic film based on the Jim Harrison novella. He plays Tristan, Col. William Ludlow’s adventurous and wild son, who practices American Indian customs. He and his family go through various trials that are brought about by nature, love, prohibition, and the ongoing war. His co-stars include Sir Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, and Henry Thomas. On his character:
Sinking below, rising above, going off, giving up, taking charge, taking control. This man’s journey seemed very accurate to me and very true.
Cryin’ performance
Aerosmith performs Cryin’ at the first annual MTV Europe Music Awards in Mitte, Berlin, Germany.
Léon: The Professional
Portman stars as Mathilda in the 1994 drama Léon: The Professional. The actress makes her Hollywood debut at the age of 11, alongside actors Jean Reno and Gary Oldman. Mathilda is a young New York girl whose entire family is killed by a corrupt cop. She finds shelter in her neighbor Léon’sapartment and uncovers his secret profession of being a hitman. On reading her script for the first time:
I read it and I was crying by the end. I was a very emotional kid.
Interview with the Vampire
Pitt stars in this Neil Jordan-directed film based on the Anne Rice novel. He plays Louis de Pointe du Lac, a 200-year old vampire who sits down with a journalist and tells him about his transformation and exploits as a vampire. Co-stars include Tom Cruise, Christian Slater, and Kirsten Dunst. On shooting in New Orleans:
The great thing that came out of that movie is that it birthed my love affair with New Orleans. We were shooting nights. So I just rode my bike around all night. I made some great friends there.
The Shawshank Redemption
King’s short story Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is adapted by Frank Darabont into The Shawshank Redemption, a feature film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman as two inmates involved in a money laundering plot in Shawshank State Prison. The film makes $28.3 million in the box office after being produced on a $25 million budget. The film currently holds the #1 spot in IMDb’s “Top 250” best films list. Darabont has adapted many of King’s works into film and says he’s always been attracted to his work as a writer.
What attracts me to his work? He’s one hell of a story spinner. He spins yarns in a very old-school way that tend to be very involving, very rich in character. […] Stephen is a very old-fashioned storyteller, in the best sense of being old-fashioned. Aside from character and absorbing narrative, he has one hell of a knack for suspense, as he’s proven time and again.
