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A14 Fort McMuiray Today Friday September 19 1997 roller-coaster ride over New Twain album delves into issues Basinger's life back to normal after lawsuit NEW YORK (AP) Kim Basinger says it all escalated into a "fire ball" her refusal of a role die lawsuit file settlement bankruptcy even the dashed plans of developing a small Georgia town "None of it made any sense and it was all so misrepresented" she says "And file sad part about it is that nothing good became of it" Now she likes to think it's all behind her "Old noise" she calls it Drowning that out is the buzz about her new movie LA Confidential and her mance as a Veronica Lake look-alike Both have earned raves Curtis Hanson director and co-screen-writer of the film set in 1950s Los Angeles gives one reason die Basinger 43 won die role: "She's one of die few contemporary actresses that you imagine in a George Hurrell photograph as glamorous as any star in the oldstudio system' said she was drawn to the was unfortu- Basinger said she was lenge of becoming Lake back on it even when filings are just going in the most spiralling downhill' she says laughing ana moving her arm in a spiral that case life must have been hysterical for a while starting in May 1991 That's when she decided to pass on the title role in Boxing Helena a Jennifer Lynch film about a woman whose arms and legs are cut off by a doctor obsessed by her Hie film's producers sued for breach of oral contract and she lost The $8 1-million jury award forced Basinger into bankruptcy and she subsequently settled with die producers of Boxing Helena for $38 million Tnen her grand plans for die town she bought with a group of investors in 1989 also got scuttled Braselton Ga about 15 kilometres from Basinger's home town Athens was put on the map by the purchase and file talk of renovating tum-of-tne-century stores and houses building a movie studio and hiring other industry to file town But by 1995 Basinger and her partners were selling parts of the town "It was better than any education I could have ever gotten at any Seven Sisters school" she says "Just the experience of it all just people What people are capable of doing in the name of money" In file last couple of years Basinger has taken time off to have a baby mid concentrate on family life with husband Alec Baldwin NASHVILLE Term (AP) Sexy has some cheeky advice for men on her new album If You Want to Toudi Her Ask Emboldened by sales exceeding 12 million of ner 1995 album The Woman in Me Twain makes light of how easily the work "ask" can be mistaken for the slang word for buttocks in file song on her new album The album Come on Over will be released Nov 4 Country records that artists hope will be heard on file radio are generally made these days to avoid even a hint of controversy "The filings that I come up with sometimes" Twain laughed in a telephone interview Wednesday fro her home in New York state "I tell ya!" "I like to approach real topics real issues with a sense of humor" said TVvain originally from Timmins Ont "It's just all about my perspective about how a woman would want to be approached or handled It's about appealing to the sensitive side and not being a jerk by just grabbing somebody and expecting to get a pleafent response" The song is one of 16 on Come on Over The first single Love Gets Me Every Time has been released to radio stations and goes on sale TUesday Twain will likely live dates by file end ot the year play of the Kim behind Iwr and la put peat oontrawamiaa on her acting nately more well-known nately more well-known And what does she bring to die role? Initially stumped Basinger settles on compassion and humor "To me humor is intelligence And it's so important to know that you can always fall for her hairdo (die se? hair covering one eye) than for her "I really wanted to capture her" SHANK TWAH in 1998 The new album contains one song tailor-made for those shows Rock This Country! and doses with Black Eyes Blue Tears a tune about getting out of an abusive relationship Singer Bryan White sings with Twain on From This Moment On Come on Over was produced and co-written by Twain with her husband Mutt Lange and once again combines aspects of country and rock music Lange has produced hits by rock acts like Def Leppard and Bryan Adams "It's kind of like you just pick on what works on the last and then you go forward with it" Twain said "You've sort of been given a ticket to go forward with that kind of stuff" Kevin Kline: nice guy next door and plans her first national tour He doubts gays will be offended by such shenanigans believing their sense of humor will win them over to the movie Others he's not so sure about "I think file Baptists are going to he says his voice trailing off Then it rises suddenly in a rare flash of anger: "The Baptists who New York's Public Theatre and "quite enjoyed that" The stage was where he began and he has won Tonya for his roles in Broadway's On the Twentieth Century and The Pirates of Penzance When he was a high school senioT he found himsdfat ease on the stage After college he spent several years touring the US performing Shakespeare Chekhov Ibsen and the like while the movie offers were slow to come "I loved movies growing up" Kline recalls "I used to watch movies on television My sister used to take me to see foreign films" When the right offer finally came it did so a big way He landed opposite Meryl Streep in Sophie's Choice in 1982 Streep won an Academy Award and Kline was nominated for a Golden Globe He got his own Oscar for best supporting actor in 19888 A Fish Called Wanda i going of rum-stop interviews and news conferences) than he does on screen But that amiable personality that served him so well in movies like The Big Chill Grand Canyon and Dave comes shining through the nice guy again in In and Out a raucous comedy with a twist Kline's character Howard Brackett is a firmly closeted gav drama teacher from the US Midwest who is accidentally outed on national TV by a bumbling former student played by Matt Dillon Kline has found reporters latching onto one scene in particular and he fears the buzz about it will overshadow In and Out's greater message: that nice people good people smart people come all sizes shapes arid sexual persuasions "Must we?" he asks rolling his eyes when warned the question is coming again But he braces himself and delivers a perfect sound-bite reply when asked what it was like to kiss the film's sleazy TV newsman Tom Selleck on the lips "I don't kiss and tell" Kline intones then smirks NEW YORK (AP) Though he's too much of a gentleman to make a fuss one senses Kevin Kline would rather be in file dentist's chair than in a hotel room discussing his movies and his life "I've always resented it file whole process" he says But he does what he must "It's now contractual" he explains "It's written into your contract" Not that he isn't friendly this soft-spoken actor who fiddles nervously with his cigarettes as he discusses his life arid his new movie In and Out He can be effusive when talking about how he discovered acting at a strict but "wonderful" boys' school run by Benedictine monks in his native St Louis Mo He can be emotional too declaring his love for his wife actor Phoebe Cates and their children "It's die most important thing in my life" he says softly then realizing what he's done shouts in embarrassment: "Oh no no don't put that! Just say the whole family's great" Kline looks somewhat older (and more tired after three days Superior Room for only XT per night Theme Room for only $2 per night movie? Yeah 1 think they're going to lose money on that bet" Then he adds: "On the other hand maybe the Baptists in charge will change their whole minds about homosexuality" Kline 49 will keep right on doing what he does alternating between movies and the stage and maybe fitting in some direct-He starred in and directed a production of Hamlet for FANTASY PACKAGE only $39 mote receive our Fantasy Package4 2 Waterpaik or Galaxyland Passes Continental Breakfast for 2 Bode of Sparkling Vhite Tine Chocolate Dipped Fruit 520 Gift Certificate for Fantasy Grill and lied Rose VKar- Available at time of booking only fiS5ci-800-RESEKYE (J73 783) KS ANTASYLAN A HOTELtfe AT WEST EDMONTON MALL EDMONTON CANADA Valid Sunday through Thursday only On now until December 24 1997 Based on availability blackout dates In effect Some restrictions apply applicable taxes Call 791-4990 Ju7m Tfettn Bat Tickets $12 kmp Iw -1 CM SI gn -ii Free home catalogue Seytenker Gpa Ui $21 rand) innumiuwnwMiiMiuniiimmmm Enjoy this Big Band Sound from a master of swing Tuesday October 28th 7:00 rm BM Keyano College Theatre Tickets at Keyano Theatre Box Office Charge by Phone at 791-4990 KEYANO UGR 1-800-343-3357 At Nckon Homes our track record covers 40 years and over 30000 homes Custom home planning with us brings together your dreams and our craftsmanship For your free copy of our home catalogue andor video call us toll-free WJVesa Sponsored by: Prcicnud by: HOMES imomi cu.