Actor James Woods signs on
to play role of Rudy Giuliani
By George Rush and Tracy Connor
New York Daily News
(KRT) — Bad-boy movie star
James Woods has played a hippie
lawyer, a white supremacist and a
cop killer. Now he’s taking on a real
ly tough role — Rudy Giuliani.
The Emmy-winning actor, who
generates as much drama off-cam
era as onscreen, has signed to star
as the ex-mayor in a two-hour
movie to air on USA Network later
this year.
The movie is based on “Rudy! An
Investigative Biography of Rudolph
Giuliani” by Village Voice senior
editor Wayne Barrett, whose bio
dished up details of Giuliani’s first
marriage and his father’s mob links.
Barrett had some advice for
Woods. “I understand he is a
tremendous Rudy fan, so all I can
suggest to him is: Don’t read the
book. We don’t want him to be disil
lusioned,”he said.
Woods has spoken publicly about
his admiration for Giuliani, even
praising him after he split with his
wife, Donna Hanover, during the
U.S. Senate race.
“It really takes guts to announce a
separation in the middle of a cam
paign,” he told the New York Daily
News at the time.
The 55-year-old actor — who
played a radical lawyer in “True
Believer,” racist Byron De La Beck
with in “Ghosts of Mississippi”
and a murderer in “The Onion
Field” — has some romantic bag
gage of his own.
He once charged that actress Sean
Young stalked him and his liaisons
with starlets have been fodder for
the gossip columns.
Woods — who won his Emmys
for Outstanding Lead Actor in a
Special or Miniseries for two
episodes of the “Hallmark Hall of
Fame,” “Promise” and “My Name
is Bill W.” — is known as one of
Hollywood’s most outspoken
stars. He’s railed against feminists
and the Clinton White House,
while praising the First Amend
ment and his own sexual prowess.
He describes himself as a “disillu
sioned Democrat.”
Recently, he said he told the FBI
about suspicious-looking Middle
Eastern men he encountered on
flights to Boston.
“I’ve spent a great deal of time
lately talking to the FBI and have
learned some startling things. I’m
convinced, as they are, that there
will be more horrific acts of terror
ism,” he said.
A spokeswoman for Giuliani
declined to comment on the cast
ing choice.
© 2002, New York Daily News.
Eminem’s a storyteller in his new ‘Show’
■ Eminem bounces personas
from demonic to fatherly in his
album The Eminem Show,’
which debuted Sunday
Eminem ‘The Eminem Show’
Interscope/Universal
By Alix Kerl
Oregon Daily Emerald
“The Eminem Show” is every
where. Because of the album’s
widespread availability on the In
ternet, Eminem’s label, Inter
scope/Universal, made the rare de
cision to move up its release date to
Sunday. Despite all these problems,
the album is expected to be one of
the year’s best sellers.
As a Detroit MC in 1996, Marshall
Mathers released his debut 12 inch,
“Infinite.” During his next two al
bums, Eminem gained huge popu
larity and shocked suburban moth
ers with his violent lyrics and
unsettling fantasies. In “The Em
inem Show,” he continues this hor
rible and pathetic tirade.
Some may say, “hate the game not
the player,” but Eminem knows
what he is doing. There is no reason
to buy this album unless you’re al
ready a fan, in which case you’ll buy
it anyway. Most of the magic that
Eminem once had has been lost
within his twisted mind. Nonethe
less, Eminem’s combination of
frightening, realistic lyrics and lilt
ing taunts is enormously popular.
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It is remarkable that Eminem
can melt over his precious daugh
ter in one breath and in the next
rap about kicking a pregnant
woman in the stomach. But that’s
the way he plays. He was abused
and treated bad, and if he gets a lit
tle crazy sometime, so what? Who
can blame him? A lot of people do,
and in this new album he works
hard to defend himself.
While not a bad rapper, Eminem’s
best asset has always been his re
markable storytelling; he makes
things come alive in disturbing re
ality. When grade school students
know every word of these stories,
something can seem terribly wrong.
Eminem’s albums are stories
where each track is a chapter. In
the story of “The Eminem Show,”
all of the characters are real peo
ple: his mother, daughter, ex-wife
and Dr. Dre.
On “Hailie’s Song,” he tries his
hand at singing a ballad to his
daughter, where he claims she mel
lows out his insanity. It is the songs
like this that make listeners not only
sympathetic to him, but make him
almost likable. Eminem may feel
real tenderness for his daughter, but
he doesn’t stop to connect her and
his references to beating and raping
other women.
In “White America” and “Sing
for the Moment,” Eminem tries to
explain his popularity among
young suburban white boys. They
listen to him because they look
like him, he says.
“See the problem is that I speak to
suburban kids/who otherwise
wouldn’t know these words exist,”
he raps on “White America.” He
then accuses his detractors of,
“Actin’ like I’m the first rapper to
slap a bitch or say faggot. ”
Rap and hip-hop have a long tra
dition of trash-talking women and
promoting violence, but no rapper
had attained the power of Eminem
outside the ghetto. People believe
him and they want to be him.
In “Cleanin’ Out My Closet” he
begins by asking, “Have you ever
been hated or discriminated
against?/I have, I’ve been protested
and demonstrated against/Picket
signs for my wicked rhymes.” Then
he continues with a sob story about
his relationship with his mother
where he taunts her with the grand
daughter that she will never see.
“Hailie’s getting so big now/you
should see her, she’s beautiful/But
you’ll never see her, she won’t even
be at your funeral.”
Just as he switches between de
mon and daddy, he plays back and
forth between saying his rhymes are
real and presenting them as a game.
The deepest power of his songs is
the reality, but he makes fun of peo
ple for believing them.
“It’s all political/If my music is
literal and I’m a criminal how the
fuck could I raise a little girl/I could
n’t, I wouldn’t be fit to,” he raps in
“Cleanin Out My Closet. ”
In “Without Me,” Eminem pouts
about the fact that his real self has
been lost behind the Slim Shady
persona. This track has been the
only hot single from the album so
far. Eminem used to live under the
power of his Slim Shady character
and now he just seems like a sick
little boy.
E-mail reporter Alix Kerl
at alixkerl@dailyemerald.com.
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