Word: adjani
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...bathing suit at the beach, dress up with accessories and wear out at night." Her Habitat ready-to-wear line did $5 million retail in 1975, its first year, and is expected to grow 50% in 1976. Horn buffs include Goldie Hawn, Dina Merrill, Evonne Goolagong and Isabelle Adjani...
...Leaud for one film, at least, is triumphantly vindicated. Leaud is a wonderful actor in some respects, but he is sui generis; one could no more imagine him in a role in this movie than Woody Allen could have taken a part in, say, Gone With the Wind. Isabel Adjani conveys all the levels of Adele's emotional life, though I suspect that the film might have been more effective if she looked older, more like the thirty she is supposed to be. Adjani manages to epitomize everything French--to be headstrong, passionate, egoistical, elegant, and sophisticated all at once...
France, too, has an emergent superstar. Isabelle Adjani, 19, is "the only actress who has made me cry in front of a television screen," said Director François Truffaut after seeing her in Giraudoux's Ondine. Truffaut signed her for an epic role, the doomed daughter of Victor Hugo in The Story of Adele H, to be released this fall. "I wanted to do a film with her very quickly," he explained, "because I thought I could steal from her those precious things-the way her face and body express everything...
...Adjani is singleminded: "My private life is my professional life." Early next year she starts filming a musical comedy with Yves Montand. Exults La Gifle Director Claude Pinoteau, "After Morgan, Bardot and Moreau, we have waited 15 years for a new young leading lady. Now we have...