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...average Harvard student gets used to being assualted by pamphleteers in the Square within a few weeks. But Joanna Wroblewski '85 still is not used to the fact that no one even bothers to take down the name of the pamphleteers--as they do in her native Poland...
When martial law closed Poland's theaters, Joanna Pacula was forced into a worldwide career
...Joanna Pacula's friends among Warsaw's actors and directors know, of course, that she won't be back. There is a rueful quality to their recollections as they describe Desdemona in jeans and a sweater, a bruised angel with, as the speaker is likely to add, a will of granite...
...could have been much surprised; Joanna Pacula's healthy ambition would have persuaded her at some point to try acting in the West. But when she did go into artistic exile, it was by a strange accident, and there was a rough irony to the circumstances that made it seem that Fate's bony finger had pointed down at her from a cumulus cloud...
...entertainment industry. "My theater was closed," says Pacula, "so I decided to wait in Paris." She called Polish-born Director Roman Polanski, who had seen her naked in the Operetta role. He had been impressed, he said last week: "Not many young actresses are capable of doing that, but Joanna had the looks and the guts." Now he invited her to see his Paris production of Amadeus, and got her a modeling job. He advised her to learn English and give Hollywood a try. Within a few weeks, still without anything definite in mind, she wandered...