Word: bardot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirty years ago, Roger Vadim created And God Created Woman and created Brigitte Bardot. Now the French director has seen fit to update his classic handiwork. The man who made stars -- and conquests -- of such leading ladies as Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda has just finished an identically titled 1980s version that is the "same idea," he says, but the "heroine is different." Juliette, the saucy French hedonist, has become Robin Shay, an aspiring American musician. She "believes in her freedom over everything," says Rebecca De Mornay, 24, who plays the part. "And she's afraid of the intimacy...
...impressed with her visage. "My skull is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big, my belly too round and my buttocks too heavy," she has observed. But Dominique Besnehard, the hot casting director who picked her to play Betty Blue, sees something else. "Like Brigitte Bardot, her physical anomalies are more important than her beauty," he says. "There is obvious violence in her look." Americans will have a chance to make their own determination. The movie is just opening around...
...black, smoky look evoking the Beats and the Left Bank of '50s Paris seemed "existential" to him. But, he adds, "actually, I had a lot of black fabric that had been delivered late, and I had to use it. I just happened to see a '50s movie with Brigitte Bardot." He is similarly resourceful about tapping into an impulse before it becomes a trend, and fearless as well as funny in his ability to meld styles to his whim and will. "This new collection of mine is the Thousand and One Nights," he explains, adding, "I've mixed the 18th...
...BARDOT, DENEUVE, FONDA...
...called gentlemen. Some men tell but do not kiss; they are called liars. Some men kiss and tell; they are called best- seller writers. The latest is Director Roger Vadim, who modestly subtitles his work "My Life with the Three Most Beautiful Women in the World." No. 1: Brigitte Bardot. She was 15, he was 22. When they parted, he was forgiving: "She always suffered if she had an affair with more than one man at a time." No. 2: Catherine Deneuve. She was 17, he was 32. Not long afterward she announced she was pregnant, he recalls, and "from...