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Another actress Allen admires is his Manhattan costar, Mariel Hemingway, who is 17. "I wrote the part for her after seeing her in Lipstick and stumbling across her photo in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. She met with me, and after two minutes I knew she was right. When we were making the film, she always stayed in character when we improvised. Even when I went off in an unexpected direction, she could always go with the scene...
...dialogue, but otherwise Catherine Deneuve and her current costar, Manfred, get along fine. "I give him orders," she says, "and, thank God, he has no initiative." To be that way around Deneuve, any man would have to be a robot, which is exactly what Manfred is. In Deneuve's latest film (working title: It's All Dad's Fault), now being shot in Nice, Manfred serves drinks, cleans house and also helps French Actor Claude Brasseur escape from jail. Even though she finds her sidekick's metallic utterances and mechanical behavior a bit offputting, Deneuve...
...costar, who played his mother, was an exquisitely naturalistic actress named Diana Hyland. She was 18 years older than Travolta, had a young son and an uncertain medical history. They spent a lot of time together, talking quietly on the set. At the cast party, Travolta remembers, "we admitted not only a friendly attraction but a sexual one. The intensity of it was new to both of us." They "well, sort of kissed." Then Travolta left on an extended holiday, did some long thinking...
...boards in the U.S. for her first American stage appearance since 1952. This time Grace, 48, is helping launch International Wildlife Year by giving a six-city series of poetry readings entitled Birds, Beasts and Flowers-with box office receipts going to various charities. Along with her costar, British Actor Richard Pasco, Grace gave her first reading in Pittsburgh and had a tough time making the Kelly pipes project. For her next number after the poetry reading, Grace will oversee the June nuptials of Daughter Caroline and Philippe Junot from a seat on the aisle...
Here by contrast it is a self-effacing costar, a presence to be reckoned with right from the start, but not an overweening one. That makes this lovely, lively film an adult entertainment in the best sense of the word. - Richard Schickel