Word: polanski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right, contestants, is this a treatment for the latest Jackie Collins mini-series . . . or is it the Real Thing? Born in London to Irish and Iraqi- Chilean parents, and already a top fashion model at 16, she is introduced to Director Roman Polanski, who casts her in his new film, Pirates. Next, she beats out 500 other girls for a coveted part in the upcoming Eddie Murphy comedy Golden Child. Then gossip columnists report that Charlotte Lewis, 18, once linked with Polanski, is now seeing Ballet Star Mikhail Baryshnikov, but the lady describes both men as "just good friends." Sorry...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Film Society's first movie of the year will be an exclusive Halloween screening of Polanski's "The Fearless Vampire Killers," which will be shown twice this Sunday...
Even on dry land his scowl could sink a ship. So Walter Matthau had no trouble at all swashbuckling himself into the character of the peg-legged Captain Thomas Bartholomew Red in Roman Polanski's Pirates. The idea of making a period film appealed to him because "I get to act instead of just being Walter Matthau." But apart from the acting, it has not been a barrel of yo- ho-hos. His beard itched for the first five months, dragging around in his 30-lb. costume has been a drudge, and the wooden leg is not exactly comfortable. Filming...
...Brattle Theatre(40 Brattle St.) doesn't show Casablanca much anymore. The Brattle now shows good foreign films and what can only be described as well-known obscure films. Bergman, Fellini, and Polanski works are standard fare. Although it tries to showcase "artistic" actors and directors, the Brattle is rarely an innovator and tends to show only what has worked in the past or in similar communities elsewhere...
Pacula is lean and quick; there is a tough, tensile quality about her-not the invulnerability of an enchanted child, but the eerie confidence of the very strong. Polanski, in Paris, talked of her "great acting talent and her tremendous will," and then added that "as we Poles say, 'She does not pour vodka behind her collar.' " This, he explained, means not that she swills alcohol, but that she throws herself fearlessly at life...