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- Apr. 26, 1993: If Redford Were Frank Perdue
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 26, 1993 The Truth about Dinosaurs
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- PEOPLE, Page 73
- If Redford Were Frank Perdue
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- <p>By GINIA BELLAFANTE
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- <p> Indecent proposal, which grossed an astonishing $18.4
- million during its first weekend, has Demi Moore grappling with
- one of screen history's more uniquely muddled moral dilemmas:
- For $1 million, should she grant her affections for one evening
- to preternaturally well-chiseled billionaire John Gage--that
- is, ROBERT REDFORD? Critics are scoffing at the film's premise
- even as talk shows make it fodder for pop psychology
- would-you-or-wouldn't-you parlor-game debates. But what if Mr.
- Moneybags had been less blond, less pearly-toothed? "That
- Diana's attracted to him adds another layer to the film,"
- ventures director Adrian Lyne, who'd considered Warren Beatty
- for the role. Beatty is certainly a 9 to Redford's 10, but
- wouldn't the chatter be more compelling if Demi's Diana had been
- presented with a more plainly difficult decision? What Indecent
- Proposal needed was a plausibly skanky John Gage played by Frank
- Perdue or Ed McMahon or Jackie Mason. If Lyne is thinking about
- making Another Indecent Proposal, he'd offer a powerful moral
- and aesthetic quandary--and maybe a hit--with Rush Limbaugh
- as Gage and Gloria Steinem as his million-dollar one-night
- stand.
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