Synopsis
Actor Jack Nicholson, writer Carole Eastman, and director Bob Rafelson re-team 22 years after their classic Five Easy Pieces, for this romantic comedy. Nicholson plays Harry Bliss, a small potatoes security expert unhappily married to a Japanese woman (he sarcastically calls her Iwo Jima during therapy sessions). Harry's life is coming apart at the seams -- not only is his marriage on the rocks, but the IRS and assorted creditors are nipping at his heels. Then opera singer Joan Spruance (Ellen Barkin) contacts him. It seems she wants Harry's help in obtaining an attack dog for her apartment, since an unknown person has been burglarizing her home and attacking her with an ax. Needless to say, Harry and Joan fall in love.
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Eminem's Woman Troubles
HOLLYWOOD, June 7, 2000 -- Some new street fodder for Eminem. The best-seller rapper is due to be arraigned today in Michigan after being charged Tuesday with assault with a deadly weapon stemming from a weekend nightclub brawl. Eminem (real name: Marshall Mathers, as in his current chart-topper, "The Marshall Mathers L.P.") also was charged with carrying a concealed weapon.
All this, because ol' Em reportedly caught another dude kissing his wife.
The business went down early Sunday outside a Warren, Mich., nightclub when a fight broke out between security guards and the hip-hopster's crew. Prosecutors say Eminem got Medieval on one John Guerra, conking the guy over the head with a 9mm handgun after he saw Guerra kiss Mrs. Eminem (real name: Melissa Mathers).
(For the record, Eminem's better half says the smooch was a friendly smooch and that her hubby "overreact