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(KRT) - With moms like Michelle Pfeiffer, who
needs enemies?
White Oleander is the latest movie in which
Pfeiffer plays a pinched, brittle character who is
toxic to the people around her. As Ingrid, who
commits murder and dooms her teen-age
daughter to a life in foster homes, Pfeiffer is
excellent - tough and sarcastic. But she might
want to rethink her attraction to this sort of
wan, Intimate Human Drama With a Message,
lest audiences forget the wit and pleasure she
brought to earlier roles in Batman Returns and
Married to the Mob. She is in danger of becom
ing tastefully gray.
Her newest shade of gray is pitched at fans of
the Oprah novel on which it's based. White
Oleander brings no new insight to Janet Fitch's
book about how a tow-headed young woman
named Astrid (Alison Lehman), bandied from
one mother figure to the next (Pfeiffer, Renee
Zellweger, Robin Wright Penn - it's the blond
leading the blond, and the too-skinny leading
the too-skinny), learns something from each
until she's more empowered than any of them
could be on her own.
Fans of the novel will miss the stuff that's
been trimmed, especially the non-blond charac
ter of an African-American mother figure who
opens up our heroine to her sexuality, a key
aspect of Astrid that the movie ignores.
Most of the darker parts of the book have
been brightened up, making the movie feel
shallow. Interesting themes are still here -
PHOTO COURTESY OF WARNER BROTHa
Michelle Pfeiffer stars as Ingrid, a brilliant poet®
cerated for killing her lover, in White Oleander.
beginning with the idea of the damageasefe
woman can inflict if she becomes a mothei-
but the movie provides a sunnier, blandetpit
ture of Astrid and everyone in her orbit.Ttiafs
especially true of her mom who, as playedbvi
carefully made-up Pfeiffer, languishes in jail
but, somehow, never misses a step in her
beauty regimen.
White Oleander
Directed by: Peter Kosminsky
Starring: Alison Lohman, Michelle Pfeiffer
Rated: PC-13, for strong language andsexiii
themes
Should you go? If you already love the bool
this is a competent, intelligent re-telling.
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Oscar-winning
film-maker dies
WASHINGTON (AP) - Oscar-
winning documentary filmmak
er Charles Guggenheim died
Wednesday of pancreatic can
cer. He was 78.
Of the dozens of films
Guggenheim produced and
directed, one of the most
memorable and effective was
a biography of Robert F.
Kennedy made shortly after
the presidential candidate's
assassination in 1968.
After RFK Remembered was
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
shown at that year's
Democratic National
Convention in Chicago, emo
tional delegates marched
around the hall and sang "The
Battle Hymn of the Republic."
In 1969, RFK Remembered
won an Academy Award for
Best Live Action Short Subject.
Guggenheim won his first
Academy Award in 1964 for pro
ducing and directing Nine from
Little Rock, about the integration
of Arkansas schools.
He also received Oscars for
The Johnstown Flood (1989),
which commemorated the
100th anniversary of the
Pennsylvania disaster, andd
Time for Justice (1994), a histe
of the civil rights movement
Overall, he was nominatedfor
12 Oscars.
The libraries of Presidents
Truman, Kennedy and Johnsc -
all feature film biographiespre-
duced by Guggenheim.
He also produced campaign
films for Adlai Stevenson,John
Robert and Edward Kennedy
and George McGovern.
In 2000, Guggenheim receNK
the Career Achievement Awar:
from the International
Documentary Association.
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