Want to hear Andie MacDowell sing the pie song from Michael? You’re in luck! Photo: Photo Illustration by Stevie Remsberg and Photo by New Line Cinema On Christmas Day in 1996, one of the most profoundly ’90s films ever made hit theaters: Nora Ephron’s Michael, starring John Travolta as a fallen angel who embarks upon a genial Midwestern road trip alongside some tabloid journalists tasked with exposing him.
Andie MacDowell as Dorothy Winters, a sensitive and musically inclined tabloid journalist. Photo: New Line Cinema/©1996 Do you remember being cast in this movie? What was Nora like to work with? In Everything Is Copy, the documentary about her life, so many people she worked with seemed to have so much love for her, but some also seemed a little frightened of her. Meryl has said she was “intimidating.”
It seems like a classic case of ’90s sexism. Did you get a sense from her at the time that she was disappointed with how it was received?