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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nastassia, Isabella, Joanna?elegant names, radiant new beauties in the world of movies and modeling. Their allure is distinctively European: it starts with their wide, serious eyes which do not blink at fame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sensual Child Comes of Age | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...camera loves Nastassia Kinski. Every feature of her young body comes to life before its lens. The wide, gray-green eyes send out satellite signals of precocity or perversity. The dewy skin holds, on the left cheek, a tiny scar, like a bookmark in a turbulent autobiography. The lips, extravagantly full, can pout or preen or tauten resolutely or open in an elfin smile. The long Botticelli neck carries the eye to a strange and strong body, with delicate breasts, expressive musculature and the strong haunches of a peasant girl or a centaur. Kinski is a true camera animal because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sensual Child Comes of Age | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...What Nastassia wants, Nastassia usually gets. Then as now, she wanted to be watched, and then taken. Her first beau was 15, she was 14, and, she says, "He waited for almost a year, just watching me, before he dared to say hello. It was the most romantic love story. We were two children in love in our own world." Soon enough, another world beckoned. At a party in Munich, she met Roman Polanski. He was 42; she was 15. "It started out as a light romance," Polanski says. "But I quickly realized that Nastassia had the potential to become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sensual Child Comes of Age | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

With her restless spirit, and the enlightened narcissism of the star performer, Nastassia has set a pattern for her affairs: love beautifully, leave quickly. "I always fall in love while I'm working on a film," she says. "It's such an intense thing, being absorbed into the world of a movie. It's like discovering you have a fatal illness, with only a short time to live. So you live and love twice as deeply. Then you slip out of it, like a snakeskin, and you're cold and naked. What worries me is that when these loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sensual Child Comes of Age | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

Moore has finished Romantic Comedy, based on Bernard Slade's Broadway play, which will be released in October, and he is now working on Unfaithfully Yours, a remake of the Preston Sturges comedy, in which he portrays a famous conductor, convinced that his beautiful young wife (Nastassia Kinski) is having an affair behind his back. Five years ago, Moore was a well-known British comic who had a small American public; today he is one of Hollywood's top box-office draws, cuddling to his own bosom a salary of $2½ million for his latest picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Cuddly Dudley, the Wee Wonder | 2/21/1983 | See Source »

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