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The movie I would most like to see this year is never going to happen. I have neither a title nor a plot; all I know is that it should star only those actors who have recently been in trouble with the law. What a lineup: Nick Nolte, Robert Downey, Jr., and Winona Ryder. A couple more and we could have an identity parade. The resulting film would have a certain cachet for scandal connoisseurs, but that is not the point. What interests me is not the details of the gossip that enfolds these performers but the manner in which their weakness--their natural sway toward tribulation--feeds into their work onscreen. Remember the photograph of Nolte that was made public after his ...