Valerie Solanas' self-destructive relationship with Andy Warhol is at the heart of Mary Harron's biopic I Shot Andy Warhol, in which Lili Taylor plays Solanas, a deranged woman who shot the Pop-art figure. ''Many people assumed she was a celebrity assassin, an empty vessel,'' says Harron. ''The shooting was an act of paranoia and craziness, but she was very talented.''

Two films that take the fight outside where it belongs are Rumble in the Bronx (Feb. 23), a comic adventure pitting Jackie Chan against a motorcycle gang, and Larry Cohen's Original Gangstas (May 10), a reunion of blaxploitation icons Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, and Pam Grier. Finally, lest you believe that staying off the streets means you're home free, there's Fear (April 12), starring Reese Witherspoon as a teenager whose psychotic boyfriend is played by Mark (the Artist Formerly Known as Marky Mark) Wahlberg. ''I play a 16-year-old who goes to live with her dad,'' says Witherspoon. ''He's left L.A. to escape the crime, and the film's really about the fact that no matter where you are, you're never really safe.'' So we've noticed.

Originally posted Feb 23, 1996 Published in issue #315-316 Feb 23, 1996 Order article reprints
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