Our leading lady Michelle Pfeiffer premieres our BRAND NEW SERIES entitled: "On The Cover." This series is for our leading ladies and men and to see them in the international best magazine covers. "Love Those Classic Movies!!!" will not spend a lot of time talking about the covers other than wanting you to enjoy our spotlight celebrity and their best ON THE COVER!
From the early 1980's to today Michelle Pfeiffer shines bright on a global scale on all major magazines from: Harper's Bazaar, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, People, & Vogue just to name a few. We are highlighting some of the best covers spanning from 1982 - 2000.
1982 French Magazine: OK!
1983 Magazine: "Cine Tele Revue"
1989 US Newsweek.
1990 U.S. People Weekly
1996 cover of "Entertainment Weekly" Michelle & George Clooney co-star in "One Fine Day"
1997 cover of: "New Woman" magazine with George Clooney & Michelle Pfeiffer who starred in
"One Fine Day" (1996)
1999 US "Harper's Bazaar"
2000 French Magazine: "Marie France."
1995 Austrian Magazine: "Freizeit."
Michelle on the cover of "Vogue Magazine" (circa 1990's)
1987 cover of Prevue Magazine with the cast of "Witches of Eastwick"
(clockwise: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon, & Cher)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell,
Raul Julia & J.T. Walsh
Costume Design: Julie Weiss Original Music: Dave Grusin
Tagline: A business on the line. A friendship on the edge. A woman caught in the middle.
Academy Award
Year
Result
Award
Category/Recipient(s)
1989
Nominated
Oscar
Best Cinematography
Conrad L. Hall
Plot:
California restaurant owner Jo Ann Vallenari (Pfeiffer) is very successful and has two customer's who are very smitten with her. One is detective lieutenant Nick Frescia (Russell) who is great at his job and then there is his friend Dale "Mac" McKussic (Gibson). Mac could not be anymore different from Nick who is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his life. Nick and Mac know each other's background and are helping one another out.
Agent Hal Maguire (Walsh) believes that Mac is not on the mends but is actually all talk and is still dealing drugs and is in big dealings. Nick is determined as he even tells his friend Mac to take him down if he is truly dealing. Nick starts to attend the highly stylish restaurant and takes notes of Jo Ann and starts to talk with her and develop deep feelings for her. Nick does not mention at first but he is acquainted to the restaurant due to his friend Mac being a regular and trying to see the dirty dealings that potentially goes down at the restaurant. The big case that Nick wants to get is getting the big Mexican drug kingpin Carlos (Julia) who he believes is heading to town to do dirty drug dealings that his friend Mac could help lead them to.
Nick and Jo Ann spend a lot of time together and start a love affair that is being done for a majority of a reason to get to the crime case. Agent Hal Maguire along with a Mexican cop sets a trap for Mac and Carlos. During this Jo Ann finds out the game that is being done by Nick and that the man that truly loves her is Mac. Jo Ann tries to help and save her true love Mac out of harms way. Watch the film to find out if this new love triangle now ends in a happy ending for anyone.....
Starring: Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer, Keanu Reeves, Swoosie Kurtz, & Uma Thurman
Costumes Designed By: James Acheson
Original Music: George Fenton
Taglines:
Lust. Seduction. Revenge. The Game As You've Never Seen It Played Before.
~ Nominated for 7 Academy Awards.
~ The motion picture was based on the play: "Le liaisons dangereuses" which was based on a 18th Century novel "Les Liaisons dangereuses."
Acardemy Awards (1989)
Year
Result
Award
Category/Recipient(s)
1989
Won
Oscar
Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Stuart Craig & Gérard James
Best Costume Design - James Acheson
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Christopher Hampton
Nominated
Oscar
Best Actress in a Leading Role - Glenn Close
Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Michelle Pfeiffer
Best Music, Original Score - George Fenton
Best Picture - Norma Heyman & Hank Moonjean
Plot:
Set in the mid 18th century France we meet the aristocracy who are on the outside the lovely and well groomed of all people. The rules and eiquette are carefully followed but behind closed doors of their fine manor's rests the lies, deception, ruthelessly playing with others as they were chess pieces. Marquise de Merteuil (Close) is the most rutheless woman who does the heavy handed games while looking lovely and fitting right into the upper class society in which she belongs.
The Marquise decides to speak with her often partner in the bedroom the also wicked Viconte de Valmont (Malkovich). Both together decide to hatch a plan of revenge against the Marquise's recent loversand his new finacee, Cécile de Volanges (Thurman). Cécile is the Madame de Volanges (Kurtz) daughter and is cousin's with the Marquise. The Marquise wants to plan with the Viconte to get the young lady seduced and ruined which makes them both very happy to see the drama to unfold.
While thr Viconte agrees to the scheme he is at the same time trying to seduce the virtuous Madame de Tourvel (Pfeiffer) whom is married though her husband is currently abroad. The Madame de Tourvel is staying in the meantime with her aunt. Madame de Volanges knows that the Vinconte is up to wrong doing with the Madame de Tourvel and warns her of his games so he moves his sites to Cécile de Volanges. What we then discover is that Cécile has been taking music lessons at home from a very young and dashing Chevalier Raphael Danceny (Reeves) whom the both have started to fall in love. The one issue is that the Chevalier is poor with no social standing as Cécile so their love can never go any further into marriage since the Madame de Volanges would object to the courtship.
Horrible games and deception occur that are being orchestrated by Valmont and the Marquise. The people that they are deceiving are suffering and potentially it looks like even the puppet masters of the games are potentially going to suffer conequences. The beautiful music, costumes, scenery and actors make this for a true masterpiece of a film.
Here is our 28th installment of this very successful feature to "Love Those Classic Movies!!!" This article is simply an enjoyment via beautiful pictures of our favorite golden age classic stars. Not a lot of writing at all or tid bits or extras just simply as it is stated, "in pictures!" Hope you all enjoy one of the leading ladies that defined the 1980's with her versatility in brilliant film roles and making the 1980's a huge decade for Meryl Streep. Enjoy as we look back at Meryl Streep's career through her roles and much more via photos!
