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From ages 5 to 14, Chapin portrayed Kathy ("Kitten") Anderson in the TV series Father Knows Best. But in the years that followed she lived anything but the serene life depicted on that show, successfully fighting a long battle with drug addiction. Then one day in 1979, when her five-year-old son Matthew asked her to go to church with him, she became a born-again Christian, and later an evangelist. But Chapin never abandoned show biz, acting in three Father Knows Best reunion specials, managing younger talents and judging beauty pageants. She is currently developing a TV series...
ACQUITTED. BRIGITTE BARDOT, 62, 1950s sex kitten turned animal-rights crusader; of charges of inciting racism; in Paris. The accusation stemmed from a Bardot letter published last year in a French newspaper decrying Muslim sacrificial slaughter of sheep, likening it to pagan rituals...
...movie's own cheerful irreverence clashes with more hard-hitting moments, such as the downfall of the perfect Tommy (Kevin McKidd), leading to a general unevenness, set to a techno beat. The innocence shines through now and again--a kitten in a drug den, even Renton's own face alone--only to be quickly undermined. There's nothing wrong with mixing scatological or whoops-I've-slept-with-a-transvestite humor with addiction drama, but "Trainspotting" somehow manages to fall into the sit-com, serious moment dead zone: "Goddamn it say something, Renton! Somebody say something...
...Pauline Alpert's Rain on the Roof, with its cascading arpeggios and delicate filigree work, matches the best that classical contemporaries like Josef Hofmann or Josef Lhevinne had to offer. Her performance of Gershwin's Fascinatin' Rhythm out-Gershwins the great man himself. Confrey's rhythmically tricky 1921 showpiece, Kitten on the Keys, is novelty's signature tune, but his Humorestless, a clever musical pun on both Dvorak's Humoresque and Stephen Foster's Old Folks at Home, is equally typical of his exuberant style. Most ambitious of all was the "Girl Gershwin," Dana Suesse (pronounced Sweese), born in Kansas...
...this cautionary tale of blond ambition, Kidman concocts a savory cocktail of strychnine and syrup. Imagine a bourgeois sex kitten mistaken for a prom queen. Her eyes are fixed in a cutesy-predatory gaze that evokes and parodies the early Ann-Margret and her cinema avatars Melanie Griffith and Drew Barrymore. Her voice has the blithe assurance of someone who has never been told no. On her teeth is a little lipstick residue, like unlicked blood. She's got It, and she knows how to peddle it. In this small-town, pastel-pretty version of Network, Suzanne strides toward...