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Canadian film has become a connoisseur's delight. But like its best actresses-Genevieve Bujold, Joanna Shimkus, Margot Kidder-it can no longer be contained at the border. If Shebib can make a polished sleeper for less than one-twentieth the cost of, say, Getting Straight, what could he do with $2,000,000? If there is any justice in the film world (or any astute Hollywood money), the answer to that question should be forthcoming soon...
...convergence of four female stars in Madrid to film The Trojan Women. A concatenation of cats? A frisson of felines? Not at all. Playing mother hen, Katharine Hepburn (Hecuba) immediately put rebellious Vanessa Redgrave (Andromache) at ease by warmly embracing her when Vanessa arrived with her daughter. Meeting Senevieve Bujold (Cassandra), Katie called her "My child," to which the young Canadian actress responded with a deferential "Madame." Even Greek-born Irene Papas (Helen) was filled with love. Asked how she felt about working with her longtime mentor and friend, Director Michael Cacoyannis, she replied: "That's like asking...
...last picture, Anne of the Thousand Days, was virtually stolen by young Genevieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn. This time out, Richard Burton was rehearsing an episode for next season's Here's Lucy TV series, and as he told the story, it was "terrible to work with two big stars" like Lucille Ball and his wife Elizabeth Tayor. "Give me back the unknowns," he groaned. Still it is hard to believe that Burton could be totally upstaged while playing−as he does on Lucy's show−a Shakespeare-spouting plumber...
Believable Appetite. Anne of the Thousand Days, for example, is a costumer's spectacle, filled with wind and hung with tinsel. It is Bujold who renders the erotic appetite of Henry VIII believable. Anne is no standard prima donna marking pentameters until her next big speech. She is a vain coquette who is first delighted with her body when it attracts the King, then distressed and finally destroyed by it when, as Queen, she fails to produce the necessary male heir. Her doomed wail, "Oh my God, the King is mad!" almost redeems the whole overblown epic...
...herself. "I have signed no contract with anyone," she says. "I don't know where to go next or how to get there." But she is not likely to hesitate long when someone finally points the way. "I like being told what to do," says Geneviève Bujold. "I wish someone would tell me what...