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Andie MacDowell and Bruce Willis in Hudson Hawk Credit: Alamy “Smug Hudson Hawk looks like a turkey,” said the Chicago Tribune on May 24, 1991 – the day that Hudson Hawk opened in the US. Bruce Willis’s comedy caper had been in the firing line since long before it hit cinemas. The accusation of turkey-faced smuggery was fuelled by months’ worth of damning set reports: constant rewrites as the film was shot; the leading lady being mysterious recast; Bruce Willis and producer Joel Silver – pumped up from the Die Hard 2 box office – ganging up on the director Michael Lehmann; and a...
Provocative: Phoebe Cates and Rik Mayall in Drop Dead Fred Credit: Alamy On May 22 1991, American television saw an unlikely meeting of two great talents. The chat show host David Letterman’s guest was the British comedian Rik Mayall. He may have been a household name in his home country but Mayall was practically unknown, save to MTV viewers familiar with The Young Ones, in the United States. Their encounter made for excruciatingly embarrassing, car-crash television. Mayall had been invited onto Late Night with David Letterman to promote his new film Drop Dead Fred, his attempt at crackin...
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck in Gigli Credit: REUTERS/Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures/HO In the latest bid by our nostalgic society to plunge backwards in time, it's rumoured that the Noughties phenomenon “Bennifer” (aka celebrity couple Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez) is back on. The best way to celebrate this heartening news? Revisit the epically disastrous romcom where the pair first met. Let’s start with how to pronounce it. Gigli. Surely not “Giggly”? No. “Jeely”. Really? Toy with it on the tongue. Pucker up to it. See if you can dimly remember what made it the mo...