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Filmmaker D.W. Griffith once remarked that the medium succeeds like no other in "photographing thought"--letting the voyeurs among us run free in what we imagine we see, via some closeup, in a character's eyes...
...Griffith, again, was wrong, as wrong as he was about the Klan's role in his beloved South. Tango intrigues us best by photographing not thought but thoughts. No one comes to understand the strange American widower that Brando plays--why he won't reveal his name, why he shouts to his dead wife, visits her lover--but rather one understands that one simply cannot understand the conflicting thoughts at which Brando hints...
Johnson's offscreen life has been more eventful. At 22 he began a four-year liaison with 14-year-old Melanie Griffith, the daughter of Actress Tippi Hedren, with whom he had appeared in the movie The Harrad Experiment. Later Johnson plunged into drugs and alcohol. "I never drank or did drugs while I was working," he told PEOPLE magazine. "But brother, when they said 'Wrap,' I would try to set the land speed record." Johnson rehabilitated himself with the help of his current mate, Actress Patti D'Arbanville, and Miami Vice has put him in the fast lane...
BORN. To Melanie Griffith, 28, actress most recently seen as the porno queen in Brian de Palma's grisly, steamy Body Double; and her husband Steve Bauer, 29, actor featured in De Palma's previous film, the equally grisly Scarface: their first child, a son; in Los Angeles. Weight...
...eight months, Charles Griffith, 25, a theater projectionist, kept a vigil in a special-care ward of Miami Children's Hospital at the bedside of his comatose daughter Joy, 3. Injured last October when her neck became wedged in the footrest of a reclining chair, Joy suffered irreversible brain damage. Two weeks ago, after an evening visit with his daughter, Griffith fired two .32- cal. bullets into the child's heart, killing her. Griffith, who faces a first- degree murder charge, said last week, "I didn't want to see her hurt anymore. She couldn't eat, she couldn...