Word: lane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small row houses where 70,000 West Indians live, is rapidly deteriorating into the capital's first true ghetto, a backwater of black alienation and crime. Cecil, 18, a slender youth with a black leather cap, leans against the doorway of the Brixton unemployment office on Coldharbour Lane and says, "I wouldn't work in this country. I'd rather be a crook." A Jamaican who left the island when he was three, Cecil has not held a job since he graduated from school last year. Unable to find anything paying more than $50 a week...
...mellower than Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Didion ranges more widely. A libertarian with a trace of Goldwater in her, an individualistic Westerner, Didion writes witheringly of bureaucrats who would tie up the Santa Monica Freeway (an eccentric passion of the woman in the yellow Corvette) by installing the restrictive "Diamond Lane." Didion, a sometime screenwriter, gives a wonderful insider's analysis of Hollywood as "the last extant stable society." She dismisses the women's movement with some hauteur: "To those of us who remain committed mainly to the ex ploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis...
...Movie children were not always like real children," says Lament Johnson, who directed Mariel Hemingway in Lipstick and Diane Lane in Cattle Annie and Little Britches, a western film scheduled for release next spring. "Until about a decade ago, girls were dainty untouchables, unless they were little mutts. Hollywood had a Latin view of them, the whore or the madonna." If a script called for a very young girl to play a suggestive role, directors looked around for slightly built older actresses. When the film version of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita appeared in 1962, it was considered scandalous that...
...they will do all kinds of things to fool you." He took a somewhat different approach with the two young stars of A Little Romance, "since on a romantic level it's an adult movie." The initial problem seemed to be that Thelonious Bernard was very shy with Diane Lane. "It was mostly the language thing," says Hill (Thelo at first spoke almost no English, though he learned fast). To solve the chemistry problem, he says, "I made them hold hands and not break eye contact for ten minutes. Soon they started giggling, then arguing, and then breaking into gales...
Their first auditions, the moments when someone looked and guessed correctly that the Arriflex cameras would like what they saw, are so far in the past for some of these veterans that it is hard for them to remember how they felt. Lane, who was six when she won a role in a La Mama Theater production of Medea?in Greek?was asked to say words backwards to determine her linguistic facility. Shields had to smash plates, because the young whore in Pretty Baby has a scene in which she smashes glass photographic plates. Mariel Hemingway did not have...