JACKIE BROWN THE POSTMAN HENRY ROLLINS SPIKE AND MIKE’S FESTIVAL Hi, Pm Kevin Costner, star of such films as Wyatt tarp, Postman Don’t come around here no more. Everything you touch turns to shit! Wednesday 9th Annual New Music: Art Opening: Rockabilly Roundup Richard Buckner Gustavo Godoy & 8 p.m. Victoria Hall Bill White Acre 965-2376 6 p.m. Arts 1434 8 p.m. Lobero Theatre the futuristic drama, where feudalism rules, Williams’ char­ acter, Abby, lives in a small run-down village. There is a scene in the film, after Abby and Costner’s Postman have a moment, where she goes back to her husband and does her daily morning chores peeling some sort of starchy post- apocalyptic vegetable. Originally the script called for her character to be tending a quaint litde garden, but this previ­ ously unknown actress, in the middle of an $80 million epic with the backing ofWarner Brothers studios, Kevin Costner and some of the biggest producers in Hollywood, decided to speak out against Abby*s assigned action. “It was all rather like Martha Stewart,” Williams begins. “I was sitting at home in London, terminally unemployed, the wolf at granny’s house, the table full of fidgety film critics thinking it was time to give up acting, when Kevin Costner from across the country have cloaked themselves to disguise rang me up and asked me to be in his new movie — so I said their true carnivorous intentions toward Little Red Riding yes, strangely enough.” Hood. It's not even lunchtime on a Saturday in early December, Last night, in the rain, after the longest cross-town jour­ but for a table full of voracious film critics dinner has just ney in the history of LA . County from Beverly Hills to Bur­ been served. Having been hand-picked by Costner himself bank, film tastemakers from across the country screened to assume the role as the female lead in his latest attempt at “The Postman.” And this morning Williams sits with her an epic, "The Postman,” 29-year-old London actress Olivia seltzer water, unaware that at this point, with one or two mi­ Williams is in the middle of dealing with becoming a Holly­ nor exceptions, no one sitting at the table with their note wood “it” girl. And she’s about to receive her first taste of pads, Bics and tape recorders actually liked T h e Postman.” Americana at its best. Like the dysfunctional family at Dis­ In fact, mere moments before her fresh face was brought into neyland, the pushing, shoving and shouting is about to this feeding frenzy, a balding, overweight man from the “My activity was to be potting pansies, and I said ‘Hey, come begin. Midwest stated he liked Costner’s last project, the abomin­ on, guys. W e are feeding ourselves here. You know, surely if How did he find you? W hat is your previous experience? able “Waterworld,” better. they have a garden, it’s going to be full of food, and if she’s How many roles have you had? What programs have you It’s not Olivia or her performance or the performance of doing anything, she’s digging turnips.1” been in? How old are you? Where are you from? What about co-stars Larenz Tate (“Love Jones”) and Will Patton (“No A t this point one of the three female writers all clustered at your family? Blur or Oasis? Way Out”), though, that they are after. Their performances one comer of die table pipes up in general astonishment: A barrage of questions come in fast and furious from were just fine. Behind beady little eyes around the room (and “You told them ... and they listened to you?” chubby men with silver hair and breathing problems. Sitting we’re not talking about agents here), these critics have only “I was quite amazed by that, too, at the time,” Wiliams re­ up straight at the edge of the oblong wooden table in the soft one agenda: get Costner. And they will use any means neces­ plies. “I was just gonna try this and see if this worked. I t was folds of a dark velvet coat that highlights her translucent, sary to get him, even manipulating inexperienced, fresh- quite late on and I'd been extremely obliging for the last three flawless skin, Williams takes a few pulsed breaths and begins faced foreigners. her first press junket. W hat W iliams is not privy to is that After flattering her with feigned interest, Wiliams gives questions of apparent general interest are red herrings. Like them an inlet through which they can seek out their prey. 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