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RvB's After Images: Raising Cain (1992)
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The double-role has been a favorite for movie audiences for a long time. Actors as different as Lon Chaney and Ronald Colman have indulged in the two-actors-for-the-price-of-one roles. In The Dark Knight, Aaron Eckhart will get to do a two-fer, playing a character who didn't get nearly enough to do in that Joel Schumacher fiasco. (Though I did very much enjoy the bifurcated Tommy Lee Jones' use of the pluralis majestatis, the royal "we.") Few double-roles, however, are as roundly a good time as Brian De Palma's Raising Cain, a reviled but rich melodrama derived in equal parts from Psycho and the equally scandalous Peeping Tom. Preposterous, invigoratingly silly, and done to a technical turn by Hitchcock's most devoted fan, this forgotten thriller gives John Lithgow -- kindly actor and easy-going TV star of Third Rock from the Sun --a chance to show his hulking, evil side.
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BREAKING: Moira Shearer, dead at 80
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Moira Shearer, a dancer who made her screen debut as the star of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's haunting The Red Shoes, died this week at an Oxford hospital. Shearer initially gained fame as a ballerina at Sadler's Wells, and won her first lead role in 1946 when she danced Sleeping Beauty at London's Royal Opera House. Two years later, she played the "doomed" Victoria in The Red Shoes; the film was nominated for best picture and won two other Oscars. Though Shearer's passion was always dance, she nevertheless appeared in a handful other other films, including Powell and Pressburger's next project, The Tales of Hoffmann and Powell's solo effort, Peeping Tom.
Though Shearer had reportedly been "weak" for the past month, her cause of death was not disclosed.
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