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Let's just say that Penthouse outlived Playboy.
*Eric Stoltz.
According to Barry Sonnenfeld in an episode of Hollywood's Best Film Directors, the reason why the film failed was because Kevin Kline refused to play it straight.
Single Albino Female would be creepier.
She mentioned in an interview that her theme song as a kid was Cher's Half-Breed.
Besides Yale, Beals also said that she wasn’t emotionally prepared to go to Hollywood after Flashdance. Back in 1992, she said: <i>"It is so intense out here. Everything is about the business. It wouldn’t have been a good choice."</i>
Beals has appeared in four films associated with Harvey - The Prophecy 2, Four Rooms, Wishful Thinking along with Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle.
According to Beals, director Joel Schumacher had always wanted to work with her. They finally got their chance on a soap opera called 2000 Malibu Road where he directed her in all six episodes. In a 1992 article for the L.A. Times, she said: <i>"I think if he had just been producing the show there would have been a fear in me he wouldn’t have been involved as I needed."</i>
Creator Terry Louise Fisher told a different side to the casting story in another L.A. Times article: <i>"Drew was somebody that Joel said, ‘Grab her.’ Jennifer was really presented to us in the traditional method by her agent."</i>
They later worked with each other on Wishful Thinking in 1995 - the year before Beals divorced her husband. It might not be a coincidence since Drew said in 2003*: <i>"Do I like women sexually? Yeah, I do. Totally. I have always considered myself bisexual. I love a woman's body. I think a woman and a woman together are beautiful, just as a man and a woman together are beautiful. Being with a woman is like exploring your own body, but through someone else. When I was younger I used to go with lots of women. Totally – I love it."</i>
* The same year when The L Word was being made.
Ironically, she studied Italian at Yale (where she met Jodie Foster).
David Duchovny wanted her to play Scully in The X-Files because he knew her from Yale and drama class but producer Chris Carter preferred Gillian Anderson.
It could have been worse. Julian Sands was approached to play the villain but he demanded too much money.
You're right. In the October 1993 issue (No. 47) of the French Impact magazine, John Woo said: <i>"I find the script for Hard Target a little too linear, a little too simple, probably because it has passed through so many hands and each of the participants has revised it in their own way. However, I managed to flesh it out a little. In particular by describing the social reality of New Orleans - the homeless, the poverty, the unemployment. These details are what I appreciate most in Hard Target. There is not only action and gunfights in my films; the social aspects count at least as much."</i>
In the December 1992 issue (No. 42) of a French magazine called Impact, screenwriter Chuck Pfarrer said: <i>"I'm from Biloxi, Mississippi - a small town of rednecks. In the past, I came to New Orleans quite often, but it was while researching for the film that I really discovered it. I followed police officers on patrol. With them, I learned a lot about the incredible savagery of the city, about this violence even more pervasive than that which rages in Los Angeles, about the galloping corruption. Very good for Hard Target all that. This allows us to show a bribed medical examiner who announces that a bullet in the head is a natural cause of death."</i>
They both can speak French.
In his memoir, Hollywood Animal, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas wrote about Adrian Lyne's director's cut: <i>"It was, I thought, beautifully done – the characters were fleshed out. It wasn't just the story of a welder who wanted to be a dancer; it was also the story of a young comedian who fails and gives up, of an ice skater who compromises her talent, of a young man who comes to realize what loving someone really means. But the studio – Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg – hated the cut and insisted that Adrian make deletions. Every time Adrian made a cut, they insisted on more until all that was left, finally, was dancing, a very bare story line, and music."</i>
It makes me wonder what they were originally going for. David Cronenberg had refused to direct whereas Brian De Palma was a few weeks into pre-production before opting out to do Scarface instead.
In his memoir, Hollywood Animal, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas confirmed that she was cast after Michael Eisner rounded up blue collar workers on the Paramount lot to watch the screen tests and asked them “Which of these three young women you’d most want to fuck?”
According to her IMDb trivia page...
She was the original choice for the lead role in Pretty in Pink, but the role went to Molly Ringwald.
Was considered for the role of Catwoman/Selina Kyle in Batman Returns.
Was offered the role of Trinity in The Matrix but turned it down.
She was considered for the role of Sofia Al-Azwar in John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum but Halle Berry was cast.
Jennifer gave credit to Marine Jahan in the June 6, 1983 issue of Jet. All copies of Jet are available to read over at Google Books.