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...hero, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), who has just found a human ear in a field. He takes it to the Lumberton police and carries out a personal investigation that leads him to Sandy Williams, the chief's daughter (Laura Dern), Dorothy Vallens, a masochistic torch singer (Isabella Rossellini) and Frank Booth, a perverted drug dealer (Dennis Hopper). Jeffrey discovers that Vallens' son and husband have been kidnapped by Booth, and his effort to intervene opens realms of violence and sexuality he never knew possible...
...Walking through the woods of peaceful Lumberton, Jeffrey found a severed human ear crawling with ants. The ear belonged to a man who, with his son, had been kidnaped by Frank (Dennis Hopper), a sicko on a helium high. Frank was blackmailing the man's wife Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini), and hiding in Dorothy's closet, Jeffrey watched Frank work his awful sexual will on her. When Dorothy discovered Jeffrey, she took him to bed. "Hurt me," she said. "No, I want to help you" -- but he soon enough acceded to her masochistic desires. Then Frank taught Jeffrey a lesson...
...Frank screams an obscenity and poof! disappears; a corpse is bound and bowed like a Kienholz sculpture; the climactic gun battle takes just a few shorthand strokes. The acting styles collide fiercely too. MacLachlan and Dern have an innocents-in-hell sweetness; Stockwell does a preening Percy Dovetonsils number; Rossellini is a madwoman with all stops out; Hopper tops her, with maybe the vilest sadistic creep in movie history...
...children of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini did not really understand the scandal that raged when their parents fell in love and Bergman left her husband, Dr. Fetter Lindstrom, to live unmarried with Rossellini and have a child, Roberto, by him. Isabella and her twin sister Ingrid were born in 1952, two years later, and their parents were married. But the scandal continued to haunt them. Says Isabella: "Every time Father came out with an unsuccessful film, the critics said he was old and crazy. We felt these assaults, and the intrusion of the paparazzi, very deeply, and we became...
Bergman and Rossellini divorced when the twins were five. Although Ingrid had custody, the children moved eventually to Rome, where they lived with a nanny across the street from Rossellini's own house. Ingrid occasionally spent time there, and Pia, her daughter by her previous marriage, moved in for three years. Rossellini's three children by other alliances were often on hand. "Like all Italian children," says Isabella, "we were integrated into adult life, taken to restaurants, to the theater, doing whatever they...