Billy Joel on Oliver & Company
November 28, 1988 | Pop star Billy Joel makes his movie debut, sort of, in this year’s holiday package from Walt Disney Productions, Oliver & Company. You can’t actually see…
Robert De Niro on A Bronx Tale
September 26, 1993 | For a superstar who’s long been notorious as a press-shy recluse, Robert De Niro certainly has been conspicuously visible in recent weeks. There he is in…
John Cusack of The Sure Thing
March 2, 1985| John Cusack, star of The Sure Thing, may be The Next Big Thing if his movie is a commercial success. The prospect leaves him decidedly ambivalent. “To tell…
Julian Sands on A Room With a View
December 12, 1986| Julian Sands, the handsome young star of A Room with a View, had tried to be a game fellow the night before and joined his Houston hosts for…
Jean-Louis Trintignant of A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
December 30, 1986 | First, the bad news: Contrary to what you might have thought after seeing Claude Lelouch’s lushly romantic A Man and a Woman (1966), the lovers did not…
Mye Hoang — Director of the A-Meow-Sing Documentary Cat Daddies
October 8, 2021 | Call it Kedi — American Style, and you won’t be far off the mark. Cat Daddies, Mye Hoang’s irresistibly appealing documentary, is so insightfully observed,…
Michael Caine on “The Quiet American”
November 17, 2002 | Michael Caine is, by his own admission, “a news junkie,” the kind of compulsive who’ll reflexively tune his TV to CNN during any lull in a day’s activities.…
Virginia Madsen on “Candyman”
October 26, 1992 | The good news is, Virginia Madsen got to go back to her native Chicago to shoot scenes for her new movie, Candyman. The bad news was,…
River Phoenix on “My Own Private Idaho”
October 13, 1991 | River Phoenix is bleary-eyed and bedraggled, looking and sounding very much like someone who was rudely awakened just a few minutes ago. The 21-year-old actor doesn’t…
Kevin Costner on “Field of Dreams”
May 3, 1989 | Kevin Costner was all set to make Revenge, a violent melodrama about illicit love and bloody retribution, when he was asked to read a script…