What’s going on in the world of Linda Fiorentino? Oh, a little of this and a little of that. The actress, best known for her work in Men and Black and Dogma, is gearing up for a busy 2008 by putting herself into the producer’s chair for a biopic of late Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.

Fiorentino is also apparently circling the lead role, although whether she’ll bite has not been determined yet. Writer Jim Curtis created a screenplay about the poet, whose best known work was Requiem, written during the height of Stalinism. Akhmatova died in 1966, after creating for herself a place in the history books as a strong feminine figure in Russian arts. Tragically, for nearly twenty years the poet’s voice was suppressed as the Russian government put a ban on publishing her works.

Before determining upon an behaving career, Philadelphia-born Linda Fiorentino fast flirted with the idea of apropos a lawyer. Fiorentino fans cruise her initial year of filmmaking her many rewarding, and her initial movie purpose as an erstwhile, love-struck artist in Vision Quest (1985) between her excellent performances. After a required brave woman army in Gotcha! (1985), she lifted eyebrows (and temperatures) as a mellow sculptress with a slant for eccentric sex games in the weird After Hours (1985). But Fiorentino was occasionally good served in after pictures, hampered by as well many prosy performances in garb films. Then came her extraordinary description of the definitely depraved “black widow” Bridget in John Dahl’s low-budget sleeper The Last Seduction (1994). In a reduction rule-bound world, the singer would have been nominated for an Oscar, though the movie was, unfortunately, shown upon wire TV prior to the melodramatic release, to illustrate digest it incompetent for the Academy race. The success of The Last Seduction and Fiorentino’s at large praised opening supposing the resuscitation her career needed, though successive lead purposes in a array of finish turkeys — many particularly the David Caruso thriller Jade (1995) and Dahl’s Unforgettable (1996) — fast negated the film’s certain effects. Fiorentino did suffer a magnitude of commend for her purpose as Jesus Christ’s usually vital descendent in Kevin Smith’s Dogma (1999), and she a single after another to work usually in all sorts of films, together with Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s Ordinary Decent Criminal, in that she played a single of the loves of a charismatic Dublin rapist (Kevin Spacey).

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