home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
TIME: Almanac 1995
/
TIME Almanac 1995.iso
/
time
/
042693
/
0426503.000
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-03-25
|
2KB
|
44 lines
<text id=93TT1518>
<title>
Apr. 26, 1993: If Redford Were Frank Perdue
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Apr. 26, 1993 The Truth about Dinosaurs
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
PEOPLE, Page 73
If Redford Were Frank Perdue
</hdr>
<body>
<p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
</p>
<p> Indecent proposal, which grossed an astonishing $18.4
million during its first weekend, has Demi Moore grappling with
one of screen history's more uniquely muddled moral dilemmas:
For $1 million, should she grant her affections for one evening
to preternaturally well-chiseled billionaire John Gage--that
is, ROBERT REDFORD? Critics are scoffing at the film's premise
even as talk shows make it fodder for pop psychology
would-you-or-wouldn't-you parlor-game debates. But what if Mr.
Moneybags had been less blond, less pearly-toothed? "That
Diana's attracted to him adds another layer to the film,"
ventures director Adrian Lyne, who'd considered Warren Beatty
for the role. Beatty is certainly a 9 to Redford's 10, but
wouldn't the chatter be more compelling if Demi's Diana had been
presented with a more plainly difficult decision? What Indecent
Proposal needed was a plausibly skanky John Gage played by Frank
Perdue or Ed McMahon or Jackie Mason. If Lyne is thinking about
making Another Indecent Proposal, he'd offer a powerful moral
and aesthetic quandary--and maybe a hit--with Rush Limbaugh
as Gage and Gloria Steinem as his million-dollar one-night
stand.
</p>
</body>
</article>
</text>