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...Paul Rudnick's wonderful new play "Regrets Only", the dress designer played by George Grizzard enunciates the difference between style and fashion. "Fashion is for followers," he says. "Style you create for yourself." Audrey Hepburn created, embodied, her own fabulous style. Here's hoping it never goes out of fashion...
...most of her life she managed to evade tabloid crossfire that signifies modern celebrity. The reign of Hepburn was mainly on the screen. She married an actor, Mel Ferrer, then she married a doctor; she had two sons, both attending her when she died. People near her said she was not treated well by her men until she found Robert Wolders, her companion for her last, most difficult decade...
...always she took seriously the responsibility of being Audrey Hepburn. Greeting her admirers at a Museum of Modern Art tribute in 1990, she she was elegant, direct, indulgent to the attention paid her. Like the reporters lined up to meet Princess Ann, we felt privileged to be in her regal presence. Serene Majesty: it was what she was and what she possessed...
...Radiance is the word," Joe Ferrer, a Time editor of the 80s and 90s who is Mel's nephew, wrote to me in an email just after Hepburn's death. "As a person, too. Though I don't think I saw her more than once after the divorce, she maintained a warm and sturdy bond with my mother. She was an exceptional person, kind, caring, involved and strong. She was someone you wished you could be like - a person who, so far as I could see, was even better than she appeared...
...great acting, we see the soul of the character through the craft of the performer. In a great star, we see the personality of the performer through the veil of the character. The actor disappears, the star displays. Hepburn did both. She always illuminated the parts she played; those young women won a unique allure because she played them. But she was also, and utterly, herself. What a gift to the earth that was, from the movies' last and best lady...