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WALKING THE STREETS on a rainy Sunday night in October, everyone but you is taking care of business, old overcoats collars-turned-up, fedora brims turned-down-against-the-weather because only the rich junkies can score out of the rain stand beneath a blue neon sign that says Police Station #4, in a parka, soaking up the wet like a DuPont Cellulose sponge. Inside, the good guys are drinking coffee and munching doughnuts as you call a taxi...
...After a role like that, there is nothing more to do," says Swiss-born Actress Marthe Keller. Her ultimate film experience was playing a vampish Hollywood star called Fedora, who has something in her of Garbo, Dietrich and Gloria Swanson. After working non-stop for a year and a half (earlier films: Black Sunday, Bobby Deerfield), Marthe, 33, has been resting in her Left Bank mansion in Paris. This week she will return to Manhattan and the apartment she shares with Actor Al Pacino. When she is ready to work again, it may be back to the boards. Says Marthe...
...played it cold, without emotion, like I would do Lady Macbeth." Her next appearance will be in Bobby Deerfield with her real-life love Al Pacino. She is also signed to play in Director Billy Wilder's movie of Thomas Tryon's bestseller Crowned Heads. Her role: Fedora, a mysterious Hollywood actress who has in her something of Garbo, Dietrich and Gloria Swanson...
...performances," says Sugar-Coated, who plays vibes. In the '60s, he explains, society drifted further and further away from his dreams. So he turned the clock backward. While rock musicians continue to play in their undershirts, Sugar-Coated decks out in a three-piece suit and a gray fedora...
...kids-many nonprofessionals -are mostly terrific. Some of the best moments in the movie come with their smallest gestures: Bugsy snapping the brim of his fedora; Tallulah cosying up to a customer, taking off his glasses and starting to tease him as the flustered fellow gropes desperately for his tortoise shells; Dandy Dan deflecting a compliment from his gang with an uncharacteristic- thus unconvincing- show of humility and a disingenuous demurrer. "Too kind, guys. Too kind...