DUVALL STEPPING UP HIS FAITH IN `APOSTLE E.F.'.Byline: Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith If Robert Duvall's labor-of-love movie project, ``The Apostle E.F.,'' doesn't wind up blessed, it sure won't be from a lack of professional help. ``I've got preachers - real preachers - coming in from all over the country,'' says Duvall, who will begin directing and starring in the tale of a Pentecostal Holiness minister, which he wrote, in Louisiana on Sept. 9. ``I've got quite a few of them in a tag-team preaching scene - Sister Faye Wynn ... Bobby Green ... I've got a guy who's a 6-foot-5, 320-pound ex-biker who dealt dope and all, then finally became a prison preacher.'' Duvall says he's booked a female minister from Memphis' Mother Church of Prophecy for a major role. He's in talks with a preacher he describes as ``a somewhat elderly blind black man'' whose voice he wants to use over his opening credits Opening credits, in a television program, motion picture or videogame, are shown at the beginning of a show and list the most important members of the production. They are usually shown as text superimposed on a blank screen or static pictures, or sometimes on top of action in the . And then there are ``two little boys out of Dallas who play guitar and sing'' - songs of praise, of course - who'll be featured in Duvall's film portrait of pulpit-pounding, in-the-spirit, revival-meetin' Bible-belt preaching. The Oscar-winning actor, who also produced and stars in TNT's November-debuting ``The Man Who Captured Eichmann,'' says ``The Apostle E.F.'' went 12 years with zero interest from Hollywood - which has resulted in his financing it himself. ``I couldn't get 6 cents from the studios. It's all my money, all my money, all my money,'' he says, perhaps already getting into that preacher man spirit. ``And I don't have any distribution yet either,'' he adds. ``The studios don't see it as commercial at this point.'' Well, you can't say he doesn't have a prayer. Also getting in the spirit: ``A Time to Kill'' star Matthew McConaughey won't be at France's Deauville Film Festival, as has been reported. He heads home from Europe next week, on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of the festival's start, to prepare for his role of a religious adviser to the president in ``Contact,'' which director Robert Zemeckis brings before the Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . cameras next month. The super-hot McConaughey intends to spend time in religious retreats as part of his research for the adaptation of the Carl Sagan Carl Edward Sagan (November 9 1934 – December 20 1996) was an American astronomer and astrochemist and a highly successful popularizer of astronomy, astrophysics, and other natural sciences. novel about the global consequences when a radio astronomer gets the first extraterrestrial radio signals ever received on Earth. Buy words: ``The looks of irritation, the sweating, the fear, it's all real,'' says actor David Paymer about ``Carpool car·pool n. also car pool 1. An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver. 2. ,'' which opens today. He spent four hot summer months shooting the Warner Bros. comedy with Tom Arnold Tom Arnold is the name of:
n. pl. kid·dies Slang A small child. kiddie Noun Informal a child car pool van is hijacked by Arnold, a hapless crook on the lam from a bungled bun·gle v. bun·gled, bun·gling, bun·gles v.intr. To work or act ineptly or inefficiently. v.tr. To handle badly; botch. See Synonyms at botch. n. robbery. ``There are car chases, car crashes ... 80 percent of the movie takes place in a van. You're being towed, you can't open the windows, the air conditioning air conditioning, mechanical process for controlling the humidity, temperature, cleanliness, and circulation of air in buildings and rooms. Indoor air is conditioned and regulated to maintain the temperature-humidity ratio that is most comfortable and healthful. doesn't work, little kids have to go to the bathroom ...'' Paymer says that each time he or Tom cussed, they were honor bound to deposit a dollar into a swear cup. ``By the end of the shoot, there was about $300 in there,'' says Paymer, adding with a laugh, ``most of it was contributed by Tom.'' The money went to the kids, and once they caught on, ``They'd try to irritate us more - to get us to curse more.'' If you can't say something nice, come to our convention: Sounds like Paul Hogan
Paul Hogan AM (born October 8, 1939 in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales) is an Australian actor and comedian. put on one of his most memorable performances this side of ``Crocodile Dundee'' at the closed Subaru annual dealer meeting this week. The Subaru spokesman took potshots at quite a few of his colleagues, including Candice Bergen and Whoopi Goldberg, who, he said, add to a ``credibility gap'' among his fellow celeb ce·leb n. Informal A celebrity. spokesmen. ``Do you think that these girls really worry about their phone bills?'' he quipped. He got his biggest laughs when he aimed his barbs barbs the primary, delicate filaments that are given off the shaft of a bird's contour feather. They project from the rachis and bear the barbules. at the competition - namely, Infiniti commercials featuring Jonathan Pryce, ``that scary gray guy who ... makes me think that Infiniti is selling caskets.'' The industry eye: Production on ``Thousand Acres'' - starring Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer - finally has started in Northern Illinois, after nearly six years of development. Also finally before the cameras in San Francisco is Propaganda Films' ``The Game,'' with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn. It, too, took nearly six years to get out of development hell. MEMO: The Celebrities column appears Monday through Friday. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1) Robert Duvall ``It's all my money ...'' (2) P aul Hogan Taking potshots |
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