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...modern avatars of the grand old radiance. Acting is easy, glamour is hard. But Stone wants more than to make sin chic. To increase her stature, she must diminish her luster. And so she has chosen the sort of caged-woman melodrama--but with a message--that, when Susan Hayward tried it in the 1958 I Want to Live!, won her an Oscar...
...Sense and Sensibility" and "To Die For." Note, however, that three of this year's nominated female actors--Elisabeth Shue and Sharon Stone for Best Actress, Mira Sorvino '90 for Best Supporting Actress--play prostitutes. Oscars have often gone to female actor in prostitute roles, including Jane Fonda, Susan Hayward and Elizabeth Taylor. Playing a prostitute in "Pretty Woman" turned Julia Roberts into a star. It seems that women's roles tend to fall into one of two categories: the wholesome girlfriend or the "woman of loose morals," the saint or the slut...
...drugs," says Eliot. "It's got everything everyone wants, and it's real." And Little, Brown, which paid O.J. Simpson $1 million to pull together some self-serving letters into I Want to Tell You (650,000 printed), points the finger elsewhere. Says Little, Brown ceo Charles E. Hayward: "Of the total dollars generated by this trial, if you stacked up magazines, newspapers, television and radio, my guess is books would come in a distant last." And this, in the end, is the same argument parents have traditionally found so hard to counter: all the other kids are doing...
Kevin Maltby Hayward, California AOL: KMaltby...
...John P. Hayward Stone Mountain, Georgia