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...Stevedore Type. When the first draft of the book was finished in the fall of 1967. Lerner decided that no one would do but Katharine Hepburn. "One performance by Hepburn in something of mine and I'd die happy," Lerner told TIME Reporter Mary Cronin last week. He got Hepburn, although at 60 she had never sung a professional note in her life. Chanel was pleased with the selection. "She's very very expensive, you know." Coco confesses, however, that "I'd always thought of her as such a gendarme type-so sure of herself." (Hepburn characterizes...
Actually. Coco would have to look far for a closer think-alike. "In essence, they're similar." Lerner says. "Both women are extraordinarily independent and vulnerable and feminine. Both lead lives according to their own standards." Although she never married, Coco Chanel's celebrated affairs kept the Continent buzzing during the 1920s and 1930s. When the Duke of Westminster proposed, her rejection was a classic: "There have been several Duchesses of Westminster-but there is only one Chanel." She seems to have had second thoughts, however. "There's nothing worse than solitude," she now says, "growing...
...many amours. If you can wait around for someone who means something to you, it's the most rewarding experience." She has had a somewhat less flamboyant personal life than Coco's, but is consumed by a Coco-like work ethic. "Look at Chanel at 86," Lerner points out, "still pinning and ripping. I've never known anyone who is so totally immersed in her work as Kate...
...only time she panics is when she's left with nothing to do," says Lerner, who figures she must get her energy from "simplifying her life. She has 20 pairs of beige slacks, white shirts and black sweaters. When she gets up in the morning, she knows what she's going to wear. She never considers what she's going to have for dinner because her cook knows she eats very simply. All the decisions that exhaust the normal person, she has eliminated...
...flashbacks using filmed sequences shown on mirrored screens, Coco's past love affairs are recalled. She develops a motherly feeling for one of her young mannequins and becomes one of the angles in a rather flimsy triangle involving herself, the mannequin and the girl's lover. The Lerner script makes a stab at smart-set language, but at heart Coco is an old-fashioned musical. It stands or falls on its star and its music...