- Title: USA: STARS OF 'EVENING STAR' SPEAK ABOUT THEIR FILM
- Date: 28th January 1996
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK (RECENT) (REUTERS) BILL PAXTON SAYING I WAS INTIMIDATED BY THE FACT THEY WERE DOING THE SEQUEL. THIS IS ONE OF THE GREAT MOTION PICTURES, ONE OF THE GREAT FILMS OF THE 1980S. AND HERE THEY WERE TRYING TO DO A SEQUEL - AND I THOUGHT OH MAN, THAT'S ASKING FOR A PIE IN YOUR FACE. AND I READ THE SCRIPT, AND BOBY HARLY WHO WROTE AND DIRECTED HAD DONE A BEAUTIFUL JOB WITH THE SCRIPT, I WAS REALLY TOUCHED. (ENGLISH)
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- Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK AND LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES AND FILM LOCATIONS
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- Country: USA
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: Shirley MacLaine returns to the role that won her an Oscar in 1984 in the new film "The Evening Star." It's the continuing story of Aurora Greenway and her family that was started in the Oscar-winning film "Terms of Endearment." The new film picks up 15 years after the first one, and Aurora Greenway hasn't changed a bit. In her own inimitable way, she's still fighting to keep together the family of kids, friends and lovers that comprise the arc of her complicted life.
After her daughter Emma's death in the first film, Aurora raised her three grandchildren in her own devoted, but over-bearing way. The results are mixed and she knows it. She battles with 18-year old Melanie, played by Juliette Lewis, and prods the older brothers Tommy and Teddy, played by George Newbern and Mackenzie Astin, but they all regard her continuing guidance as relentless meddling.
As if that weren't enough, Aurora also has to contend with the unwelcome interference and influence of Patsy Carpenter, played by Miranda Richardson, who was Emma's best friend and is Aurora's chief rival for the children's affection. Aurora and Patsy's competition for the attention of Aurora's therapist, played by Bill Paxton, heightens the stakes in this dysfunctional family's feud.
Also in the cast is former "Happy Days" star Marion Ross, who plays Aurora's cook, maid, and nanny Rosie. Aurora and Rosie have been friends with a love/hate relationship ever since the story told in "Terms of Endearment." Also returning from the first film is Jack Nicholson, who again plays Aurora's one great love, former astronaut Garrett Breedlove. Nicholson won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Breedlove in the first film.
While "Terms of Endearment" was directed by James Brooks, who also won an Oscar for his work, "The Evening Star" was helmed by Robert Harling, who also wrote the film's screenplay. He based it on Larry McMurtry's best-selling novel of the same name. This is Harling's feature directing debut but he previously wrote the highly acclaimed stage play, "Steel Magnolias" and the screenplays for "Soapdish" and "The First Wives Club." Besides her Oscar win for "Terms of Endearment," MacLaine has been nominated for the Academy Award six times, for the films "Turning Point," "The Apartment," "Some Came Running," and "Irma La Douce," and for producing and co-directing the documentary "The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir." She has starred in 40 major motion pictures and countless stage shows throughout her career. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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