Hilfiger is calling 1999 " The Year of Music, " and although his clothes have long been staples among hip-hop's cognoscenti, in the past few seasons he has been recutting his image as a rock supergroupie.
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That way, an ailing star who dies during a project ( like Oliver Reed in last summer's " Gladiator " or Nancy Marchand in HBO's " The Sopranos " ) could finish the role without complicated recutting of old scenes.
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Besides " Thirteen Days, " he recently returned from Ireland, where he took the Joseph Cotten role opposite Madeleine Stowe in a four-hour miniseries, " The Magnificent Ambersons, " based on Orson Welles'l942 film and using Welles'original script, which was later mutilated by studio recutting.
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On its release, " The Stranger " was unfavorably compared to Alfred Hitchcock's " Shadow of a Doubt " ( 1943 ) . " One reason for the similarities is the recutting, supervised by Ernest Nims, " wrote film historian Bret Wood . " By removing the Latin American sequence and many of the political elements ( such as the clock / fascist analogy ), " The Stranger " is transformed from a socially relevant drama to a small town murder story, with the villain more a psychopath than a political fugitive.
