James Earl Jones on “Field of Dreams”
May 6, 1989 | In Shoeless Joe, the 1982 novel on which Field of Dreams is based, the hero of the piece is Ray Kinsella, an Ohio farmer who heeds…
Patricia Hitchcock O’Connell on Life with Father: Alfred Hitchcock
March 11, 1993 | There’s at least one brightly charming story in The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock, Donald Spoto’s controversial 1983 biography of The Master of Suspense,…
Clint Eastwood on “Unforgiven”
August 6, 1992 | Now is the summer of Clint Eastwood’s reassessment. It is the best of times for the 62-year-old superstar, as he greets a seemingly endless series of…
Rosanna De Soto on “La Bamba”
July 23, 1987 | La Bamba, a film about the short but eventful life of Mexican-American rock star Ritchie Valens, finds Rosana De Soto cast as Connie Valenzuela, mother of the…
Robert Rodriguez on “El Mariachi”
March 15, 1993 | Robert Rodriguez had just flown in from Seattle, and, boy, did he look tired. Unshaven and bleary-eyed, the Texas-born filmmaker trundled off the airliner Thursday night, carry-on…
Hail to Queen Latifah
January 8, 2006 | In an era when movies, music videos and other mass media constantly reinforce the notion that women can never be too thin – that skinny is…
Ned Beatty on “Hear My Song”
February 16, 1992 | For Britishers of a certain age, the onstage performances and offstage misadventures of tenor Josef Locke are the stuff of legend. For director Peter Chelsom and co-screenwriter…
Brandon Lee on “Rapid Fire”
August 16, 1992 | Like father, like son. Like dynamite. Brandon Lee, son of the late, great Bruce Lee, is following in his father’s ferocious footsteps as the two-fisted star of…
Patrick Swayze: Back in Houston
December 19, 1988 | Patrick Swayze returned home last week, every inch the conquering hero after the box-office smash of Dirty Dancing and the chart-busting hit of ''She’s Like the Wind.''…
Patrick Swayze on “Road House”
May 14, 1989 | Patrick Swayze was on last weekend, flashing smiles and pumping hands, cracking jokes and fielding questions, bounding from one interview to the next at New York’s…