Word: porizkova
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, Anna gives this old premise some unusual new twists. Notably, Writer Agnieszka Holland and Director Yurek Bogayevicz decide that the aging star's decline is more interesting than either her protege's success or potential bitchiness between the two of them Young Krystyna (Paulina Porizkova) worships Anna (Sally Kirkland) even after she has eclipsed Anna, who in turn manifests no jealousy or ill will toward Krystyna, at least not until near the end of the film. Yet Anna's decay is inexorable, pathetic and real, and is correctly the film's focus...
...fact, Krystyna's story bears uncanny resemblance to that of Porizkova. Like her character, Porizkova fled the repression of Eastern Europe for America, where she found sudden fame because she is gorgeous. Just as her looks make the question of whether Krystyna has any real acting talent irrelevant to her success, so Porizkova's looks make the question of her own talent moot. It is not that model Porizkova demonstrates in her debut role that she cannot act, but rather, in this movie, Porizkova, like Krystyna, simply doesn't have...
...Well, Dad," the youth revealed, "while hitch-hiking in pursuit of your movies, I happened to be picked up by a big limousine bearing none other than movie cut-up Rodney Dangerfield and his friend, Paulina Porizkova. After a wacky series of misadventures, involving several cases of mistaken identity, a mix-up with a bag of jewels, and a wedding averted at the last moment, it turns out that Miss Porizkova is in love with me and that I am heir to a large industrial fortune. Excuse me, Father, but I believe the chauffeur is waiting." And with those words...
This year, in a rare display of tokenism, Sports Illustrated has included photographs of a Black woman. In previous years, only white women with WASPy names (with the recent exception of Paulina Porizkova) were considered beautiful enough to grace the issue's pages...
anti-Communist, really "just a young brat writing graffiti on the walls." But in Czechoslovakia, that meant he was frequently jailed. So in 1975, when she was ten, Porizkova moved to Sweden with her parents, and by 18 she had dazzled much of Europe as a top Paris model. Then she came to New York City where she now earns $300,000 a year with the Elite modeling agency. She is here on a working visa and has not yet decided to seek citizenship. "What I love and hate about the U.S. are the same things. I hate that there...