Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, August 23, 1993 TAG: 9308230012
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Cruise and Brad Pitt have been miscast to play the lead roles in the film version of her best-selling novel "Interview with the Vampire," she says.
"It's like casting Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer in the movie," the author told the Los Angeles Times.
The $50 million Warner Bros. project, set to begin filming in mid-October, also stars Antonio Banderas, River Phoenix and Stephen Rea.
The movie will be directed by Neil Jordan.
Cruise "is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler," Rice said, adding that he "should do himself and everyone else a service and withdraw."
Paula Wagner, Cruise's one-time agent who formed a production company with the actor at Paramount, said he is not given enough credit for his acting ability.
"People had much the same reaction when Tom was cast as [paraplegic vet] Ron Kovic in `Born on the Fourth of July,' " she said. "Two years later, he received an Academy Award nomination."
The devil made them do it.
That's what some of the 20 naked Pentecostals packed cheek-to-cheek into a car told police in Vinton, La., after the vehicle ran into a tree.
Officers watched in disbelief as the group piled out of the 1990 Pontiac Grand Am and began religious chants.
"Didn't have a stitch of clothes on. I mean, no socks, no underwear, no nothin'," said Police Chief Dennis Drouillard.
The passengers said they were en route to a religious retreat in Florida.
According to the police chief, some passengers said they had stripped because their clothes were possessed.
by CNB