Manhattan
is looking pretty dangerous these days. In the last week, Fox 2000
paid $3 million for The Cobra Event, a story about a killer who
releases a deadly virus in Manhattan and the female pathologist who
fights the airborne virus and catches the murderer. And Miramax Films
purchased So Shoot Me, a comedy about two club-hopping hedonists,
Kat and Kitten, who find happiness by catching the Supermodel Serial
Killer of Manhattan. As though a virus could survive the New York air
or kill a Supermodel.
The U.S. Postal Service has announced that Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolf
Man, The Phantom of the Opera and The Frankenstein Monster will all
be seen on stamps, starting Oct. 1. In Los Angeles, long-jaded to movie
monsters, the classic creatures will be replaced by Christian Slater,
The Implant, Charlie Sheen, The Phantom of The Mini-Mall and
Steven Seagal, the bolt-knecked monster raised from obscurity by
Dr. Michael Ovitz.
Producer Jason Kliot says he's obtained access to shoot a film
in Vietnam for the first time since the war. Three Seasons is
expected to shoot in Nam in late October with Harvey Keitel as
the star. The Vietnamese may not understand why a story about a naked
pianist who seduces mute women, cleans up after hit men who screw up
and grunts a lot, set in Brooklyn, New York, has to shoot in Vietnam.
Huh? It's not about that? It's about a G.I. who returns to Vietnam in
search of a daughter born out of a liaison with a Vietnamese woman?
Oh well. I bet Harvey still grunts a lot.
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