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...hardest tasks for an actor is living up to a title like "the next Jimmy Stewart" or "the next Kate Hepburn." Such comparisons are flattering, of course, but they put the actor in a bind. When one is trying to create one's own individual piece of dramatic history, it is discouraging to be thought of as aping someone else, especially if that someone else is an unmatchable figure in his own right...
...trousers (Jim Youngs). In her eye blink of a role, Winningham is a buoyant delight, and Youngs nicely fleshes out his cardboard stud, but everyone else goes under in a sea of mannerisms. Arquette brings a clangorous winsomeness to the sort of cracked-belle character that the young Katharine Hepburn portrayed so majestically in Morning Glory and Alice Adams. Rosanna grates; the film galls. If Nobody's Fool doesn't get on your nerves, you don't have...
...DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, Lauren attended business classes but paid little attention to studies. His adolescent idols were British and American style setters: the Duke of Windsor, for example, and Katharine Hepburn, who stole the show in The Philadelphia Story with her pants-and-pearls look. Lauren's early fashion education was basically a home- study course that he recalls being a "combination of movies and reading Esquire." Says he: "Whether that world exists or not, I don't know. I saw things as they should have been, not as they were...
...author of Heartburn was born knowing about star quality and its discontents; she is the daughter of Screenwriters Phoebe and Henry Ephron, who put funny endearments into the mouths of Tracy and Hepburn (Desk Set) and adapted Carousel for Hollywood. In Mike Nichols, Ephron fille has found the perfect director for her skewering humor. Once he invigorated cabaret comedy as half of the Nichols and May team; now he orchestrates the romantic abrasions of Nicholson-Streep and the nifty cameos of Steven Hill as Rachel's flighty dad and John Wood as a nightmare Alistair Cooke. Generous and precise, Nichols...
...Bells. Movie-struck, semi-pubescent punks with their cigarette packs turned up in the sleeves of their T shirts are spotting them and shooting their best Judd Nelson looks. And 14-year-old girls in shouldn't-be-legal shorts are looking cute and plotting how to be Katharine Hepburn, or maybe even Ally Sheedy. The classes of '87 through '90 are already hard at work...