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`Hannibal' Offers Perfect Valentine's Treat for the Twisted

Aired February 9, 2001 - 11:41 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Time to check in on showbiz news.

LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: All right; Laurin Sydney standing by. She's got all of the dope for us this morning.

What's up Laurin?

LAURIN SYDNEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you; there is plenty up.

Now, look, I don't know if both of you watch "Friends" or "Survivor," or even read a book last night -- but in case you don't know this, another survivor was voted out of the outback.

"Mad Dog" Maralyn Hershey, a 52-year-old ex-cop, is out of the running for the million-dollar prize, but she may be eligible for an Emmy. The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences voted Wednesday to create two new primetime categories that will reward the growing reality-TV genre.

Sean "Puffy" Combs is trying to survive his own trial -- his, in a New York courtroom where he faces gun possession and bribery charges. The rapper heard testimony Thursday from the police officer that found a gun in the vehicle that Combs and his girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, used to flee the 1999 nightclub shooting. The officer testified that the driver of the car told him the gun was his, then recounted, saying, quote, "he was not going to take the rap for anybody else." He also testified that Lopez was frisked and then tried to walk away before being questioned.

And we will have much more from the "Showbiz Today" reports desk in just a moment, so please stay tuned.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SYDNEY: Tell me I'm crazy, but I have a feeling that popcorn sales are going to go down in the theaters that will be showing "Hannibal" starting today.

Put down your breakfast and take a look.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "HANNIBAL" TRAILER)

NARRATOR: She matched wits with the world's most dangerous mind.

JULIANNE MOORE, ACTRESS: Hello.

ANTHONY HOPKINS, ACTOR: Well, hello, Clarice.

NARRATOR: Now her nightmare is starting again.

MOORE: He's killed 14 people.

HOPKINS: Are you ready?

MOORE: Yes.

HOPKINS: I'm sure we'll have a lot of fun.

MOORE: Don't do this; turn yourself in to me.

HOPKINS: Not in 1,000 years.

MOORE: Good evening Dr. Lecter.

NARRATOR: "Hannibal."

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SYDNEY: I can't even watch this.

Joining us now at the movies is "Rolling Stone"'s film critic extraordinaire, Mr. Peter Travers.

Hi, Peter.

PETER TRAVERS, "ROLLING STONE": Hi; happy to be here.

SYDNEY: OK, let's cut right to the chase. What is the vomit factor on this film -- 1 to 10?

TRAVERS: Huge; huge! The vomit factor on the film is huge in the last 10 minutes, OK, that's really all. You're going to hear a lot of stories about, eww, I can't stand this, it's grizzly, it's too much -- no.

Everybody, come on, we watched "Survivor II," we saw people eating those worms and the larva...

SYDNEY: Yes, we did.

TRAVERS: ... we can take a lot of things.

Only the last 10 minutes; so if you have that kind of weak stomach, the last 10 minutes, keep looking at the floor or studying your shoes.

SYDNEY: So set your watches.

TRAVERS: That's it.

SYDNEY: Alarms will go off all over America. TRAVERS: Oh, you know it; oh, boy, oh, boy.

SYDNEY: So, the big question: Which one was better? This, or "Silence of the Lambs."

TRAVERS: "Silence of the Lambs" is so much better it's a joke to even talk about them in the same sentence.

So it sounds like, when I say that, I'm now going to trash the movie -- I'm not. On it's own terms, it really, really works. You've got to remember, Ridley Scott, who directed this, did "Gladiator," which is going to be big news at the Oscars next week.

He knows how to do it, and the first movie was just in those faces of Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal and Jodie Foster. Now we're in Florence, we're in Virginia, we're in Washington, D.C.; we're seeing a different kind of movie, so we don't get that close to the characters.

But, hey, Anthony Hopkins is Hannibal; he's great. To hear him go, "hello, Clarice" -- don't I do that well?

SYDNEY: I can't even watch you.

TRAVERS: Yes, it's really -- but Julianne Moore, a big part of the story here, replacing...

SYDNEY: Do you miss Jodie Foster?

TRAVERS: I did; I missed her very much for the first 10 or 15 minutes, and then I realized 10 years have passed since this, and Julianne Moore was doing a really good job of making this character look like somebody who's lived a tough life as an FBI agent for those 10 years. So, hooray for her.

SYDNEY: Now, what I find so ironic is the timing of this film: Valentine's Day weekend. If my honey is watching out there, I do not want to go and see this on Wednesday night -- why Valentine's?

TRAVERS: Well, you should, because here is the absolute date movie for Valentine's for everybody who's twisted. Every twisted couple in the world that wants to rescue the other person or destroy the other person at the same tame -- and hey, Laurie, I don't know, but we've all been there, haven't we?

SYDNEY: Yes, we have.

TRAVERS: I called this move, "When Hannibal Met Sally." That's basically the kind of movie...

SYDNEY: Where's Billy Crystal when we need him?

TRAVERS: This is the kind of movie for all of you out there that really rooted for King Kong to get the girl because there's a kiss here. Hannibal and Clarice share this kiss -- I'm not going to say how, I'm not going to say the circumstances -- but this is the most perverse romance that you'll ever see. Ten years ago, when "Silence of the Lambs" opened, it opened on Valentine's Day, too. And look, it went on to be a huge hit and win the Oscar for best picture and for the two actors.

So, hey, go and see this. Remember the last 10 minutes -- everybody hide -- go out to the restroom, do something. But for the rest of it, have a good time on your own time.

SYDNEY: Now, Daryn, in Atlanta, I know that you're not going to want to see this on Valentine's Day.

KAGAN: I'm telling you.

SYDNEY: But I know Peter's dying to ask...

TRAVERS: Daryn is never going near this. She is never going near it -- she wouldn't.

KAGAN: Peter knows that I don't watch bad-dream movies, so you know I'm going nowhere near this.

SYDNEY: Good girl; two against one.

KAGAN: But I am interested, Peter, in more of the comparison between Julianne Moore and Jodie Foster. I read what I thought was kind of a nasty comment -- I think it was from Ridley Scott, saying he was glad that Jodie Foster refused to do this movie because he thought that Julianne Moore was sexier as Clarice.

TRAVERS: That was a comment from Dino de Laurentis, who's the producer of the movie, who wanted Jodie Foster so much to be in it. And he felt that Jodie wanted $20 million and 15 percent of the gross to do the movie, where Julianne Moore could get $3 million. I think that was it; it didn't have anything to do with the sexy, it had to do with the economics of it.

KAGAN: Very good; so you're saying, go?

TRAVERS: I'm saying, go, even though I know the two of you are..

KAGAN: Not a chance.

SYDNEY: Daryn, I'm saying, do this.

KAGAN: Yes, I'm not even getting -- I'll be standing out by the popcorn stand. I'm very happy there.

SYDNEY: OK.

KAGAN: Peter Travers, Laurin Sydney, thank you very much.

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