CRUISE PATROL
Steven, doll: So glad you've dealt with your
commitment issues and settled on A.I., the
artificial-intelligence drama begun by Stanley Kubrick; frankly,
all your flip-flopping was driving the industry nuts. But now
that you've put the sci-fi thriller Minority Report on your
to-do-later list, your prospective star, Tom Cruise, is left
pounding the pavement. Lucky for him (and for your conscience),
he has a few options.
Cruise's agency, CAA, is remaining mum, but we're betting he does Robert Redford's A Beautiful Mind, the story of John Nash Jr., the movie-star handsome, schizophrenic, Nobel-Prize-winning mathematician. Jim Carrey's also expressed interest, but Tom's got that Oscar nod in his favor. The script by Akiva Goldsman(Practical Magic) is ready to roll, and Redford is meeting with actors in the next month. Cruise is also said to be circling Fertig, about a World War II hero. Then there's Hennesey, which Robert Towne (Chinatown) is writing for the actor and hopes to direct. But Towne thought he'd have more time to write the script, a love story, and plans to direct a remake of Hitchcock's The 39 Steps in Australia this fall. ''[Hennesey] is on a slower track,'' says Towne, ''and I sort of assume it's going to stay there.'' Towne points out that Cruise has ''been working pretty hard. If he wants to, he could just let his wife work.''
DUETS, PART DEUX
Responding to a recent column, director Bruce
Paltrow says he not only made changes to his karaoke drama Duetsat Disney's request — adding a scene that prepares the audience
for a character's death — he's ready to make some more. ''I could
be childish and have a fit,'' he says, ''or I can work with them.''
Disney hasn't set the movie's release, but we're anticipating
the soundtrack, which features Gwyneth crooning with Babyface.
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