MOVIES: ''It rang bells,'' says Nora Ephron of This Is My Life, a Meg Wolitzer novel that Ephron and her sister, Delia, will turn into
a movie starring Julie Kavner (Alice). ''The story is about two
daughters and the effect on children of a mother's career,'' adds
Ephron, who will also direct. ''Our mother worked and our parents
wrote stories about us.'' The Walt Disney Co. has made a fortune with
Americanized versions of French films in recent years. First came Down and Out in Beverly Hills, then Three Men and a Baby, then Three
Fugitives. Now the studio is reaching across the Atlantic again for
the 1987 comedy-drama Le Grand Chemin, which delves into a young
boy's summer spent with his mother's best friends, who are mourning
their own child's death. Disney's adaptation, retitled Paradise,
begins shooting this month with the husband-and-wife duo of Don
Johnson and Melanie Griffith in starring roles... They're not the only
couple making movies together: Gary Oldman, the lushy Westie in State
of Grace (and upcoming in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead),
will play the pickled Welsh poet Dylan Thomas in Dylan, with
wife Uma Thurman (Miller's spouse in Henry & June) as Mrs. Thomas. David Drury (Defence of the Realm) directs...
MUSIC: If movies have sequels, why not records? Sony Music is
putting the finishing touches on a boxed set of rarities from Bob Dylan, who took his stage name from the poet. The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3 (Rare and Unreleased) 1961-1989 will follow his 1985 Biograph collection. The three-CD (or three-cassette) set consists of
58 previously unreleased tracks spanning the bard's restless career.
Highlights include demos recorded in a Minnesota hotel room in 1961. Bootleg will be released on March 26, just in time to capitalize on
two noteworthy Dylan events: his Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award,
to be presented Feb. 20, and his 50th birthday, May 24. — Casey Davidson, Mark Harris, Melina Gerosa, David Browne
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