Hawking the Universe
If Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, probably one of the
least read best-sellers of recent years, has been languishing on your
coffee table, now you can say you're waiting for the movie. Eureka!
Hawking has gone Hollywood. Director Errol Morris (The Thin Blue
Line) is translating the slim but weighty tome on astrophysics into a
90-minute nonfiction film featuring state-of-the- art graphics as
well as Hawking himself, the wheelchair-bound Cambridge
physicist who has Lou Gehrig's disease.
Harlem Days
Shooting has started on A Rage in Harlem, starring Gregory Hines, Danny Glover, Forest Whitaker, Robin Givens, and Zakes
Mokae. Based on the novel by Chester Himes (who also wrote Cotton
Comes to Harlem), the action-comedy marks award-winning TV director
Bill Dukes' feature film debut.
Life's a Beach: Part II
Calling all beach boys and girls: Columbia Pictures is looking for
a couple of nubile teens to step into the shoes. . .er, loincloths of
Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins for Return to the Blue Lagoon,
a sequel to the 1980 adventure in paradise. ''We're searching for a
freshness and innocence. . .the opposite of hip New Yorkers,'' director
William Graham explained at an open audition in — where else? — New York
City that attracted more than 500 kids. Swimming prowess, or at least
looking good in the water, was a definite plus. As soon as
the castaways are cast, shooting will get under way in Fiji.
Andy Superstar
Drugstore Cowboy director Gus Van Sant will cowrite and direct a
biopic about Andy Warhol. Based in part on a book by Victor
Bockris, the film reportedly will also rely on elements of fantasy to
tell the late artist's story.
