Word: natica
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...wife in Scarface, as a Hitchcockian heroine with a Los Angeles '80s twist in Into the Night. Then, switching on the Cinderella smile, she became a princess in the medieval adventure Ladyhawke and the sweetest witch in Eastwick. She has played movie stars in Sweet Liberty and PBS's Natica Jackson, two fables about creatures of illusion manipulating the reality of voyeurs who dare mistake the actress for the role...
Three star-quality performances help. In Natica Jackson, Michelle Pfeiffer plays a pampered screen beauty who falls for a married man. John O'Hara's tale has a bitter twist, and Pfeiffer adds her own tasty mix of sweetness and vinegar. A Table at Ciro's, from a Budd Schulberg story, resorts to broader caricature, as some familiar Hollywood types (washed-up director, naive ingenue, swaggering Latin lover) gather at a dinner hosted by a powerful studio mogul. But Darren McGavin plays the bigwig with such bemused dignity that the character seems brand...
...clean and terse, and the code is more often amoral than immoral. Most O'Hara people live by the venerable adage, "If I don't do it, someone else will." Thus James Hatter has few compunctions about sleeping with his best friend's wife, and Starlet Natica Jackson even fewer about destroying a neighbor's marriage. A bitchy British countess in Hollywood sums up: "After all, everyone's naughty when the door is closed, don't you agree...
...methodical worker, using the summer months for short stories and execrable golf, and the fall, winter and spring for novels, hence the title Waiting for Winter. The stories in this new collection, ranging from a brief seven-page look at an ugly marriage to the novella-length Natica Jackson, add up to a fine job of summer's work...
Born. To Gerald Felix Warburg, cello-playing son of the late Banker Felix Moritz Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.), and Natica Nast, daughter of Publisher Conde Nast (Vogue, House and Garden): a son, their second child (weight: 8 Ib. 4½ oz.); in Manhattan...