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What brought this fountain of rarefied nonsense to Mr. Goodbar? Keaton's name still brings an "Oh. yeah, Woody Allen's girl" reaction from filmgoers, and she and Allen have known for some time that she must establish herself separately. Her first venture, during a dry period between the stage and film versions of Play It Again, Sam, was a series of three memorably tacky TV commercials, in which she played a housewife who jogged around her kitchen in a track suit, holding up a can of Hour After Hour deodorant and yelling, "This stuff is great...
...problem of establishing herself as something more than a luminous satellite remained. Goodbar was especially satisfying as an answer because it is the heaviest kind of melodrama. As is true of so many gifted comedians. Keaton yearns to evoke horror, jerk tears, turn the faces of onlookers pale with fear. "I didn't know if Diane had the range," Goodbar Director Richard Brooks remembers. "And I was thinking, sitting there in my office with her, that she is not exactly what you call a great beauty. Then it struck me that this is who this story is about: a nice...
...Goodbar?which means complete control of the film and no changes to be made without his approval?he agreed to work for a minimal salary and a percentage of whatever profit there may be. To meet expenses, he is selling his house. Today this furious man speaks of Keaton with a kind of awe: "She has more artistic courage than anyone I know...
Brooks and Keaton mulled over the character of Theresa Dunn, who teaches devotedly in a school for the deaf by day, and then, as "Terry," prowls for rough sex in the singles bars at night. Terry is frighteningly disconnected from any feeling that lasts longer than the time required for nerve ends to stop tingling. She goads men and feels invulnerable...
Both Brooks and Keaton were concerned about the sex scenes. The basic question was simple: Could she do them? They had to be done nude. Keaton is a woman who hides imagined flaws behind high collars and long sleeves...