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...tries to give a prose version of the film. This can only be a dilution, so, the first priority should be to find something strong enough to need explaining. This doesn't necessarily limit film criticism to 'art' cinema--good articles could be written on, say, Allen, Scorcese, or Polanski, besides Hitchcock. But - surely - we don't want books explicating Woody Allen, who's obvious enough anyway...
...What Makes a Man G.I.B.? by British Writer Wendy Leigh hits U.S. bookstands next week. Leigh put the question to 49 well-known men and women. She got some startlingly explicit answers. There were only two no-comments, from Television Personality David Frost and Film Director Roman Polanski, who either didn't know or wouldn...
...Manson peers in at the window. Linda Kasabian, the star prosecution witness against Manson, recruited Didion at one point to go to I. Magnin in Beverly Hills and buy her a dress for court: "Size 9 Petite. Mini but not extremely mini. In velvet if possible." Didion and Roman Polanski turn out to be godparents to the same child...
Pretty Baby--This is one of the most talked-about films of this year. It is also one of the worst films of this year, recommended only for people, with Roman Polanski-esque leanings. As you probably read in People or the National Enquirer or something, Pretty Baby features the astonishingly ripe 12-year-old starlet, Brooke Shields, as a child growing up in a New Orleans whorehouse around 1917. Director Louis Malle's camerawork is beautiful, as it has been in many of his earlier films, but the story and acting in this fiasco are purely insipid. Particularly...
...COME-ON was irresistible. Polanski, the peep shows--everybody's been hot about the subject of sex and children. Everbody's been even hotter about Brooke Shields, the twelve-year-old model with the face of a twenty-year-old who plays the lead in Pretty Baby. and based on his previous work, French director Louis Malle seemed like the perfect candidate to tackle the subject--child prostitution in early 20th-century New Orleans. In Malle's hands, the film could be expected to either purge our inhibitions with sexual explicitness, or plague our consciences with subtle social commentary...