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...with nerves of creme brulee. She is comically neurotic--her heels and condoms are always spilling out of her book bag--and prone to ulcers and indigestion. "What's wrong with you?" she asks herself at one point. "Men smile at you on the subway, women ask you what shampoo you use; be happy." Why Bennington isn't, say, an assistant in the copywriting department at Ogilvy & Mather is anybody's guess...
Russell's only film education came from a high school girlfriend who got into movies free through a relative, there wasn't much to do in suburban Larchmont, New York. "I saw Shampoo, Chinatown and Taxi Driver about five times," he recalls. After studying literature and government at Amherst, he toiled at various jobs while making short films. The director admits he mines material from a vein pretty close to home, and Flirting is based in part on his adopted sister's search for her biological parents. But when asked why his films treat parents with such disrespect...
...that is sissy stuff compared with the shenanigans at Pomp Duck, self-described as "a restaurant out of control." The staff (actors, mostly from Germany) are nuts. They steal your bread, feed you soup, mummify you in packing tape, give you a quick shampoo. When waiters announce the fish course, beware--you will get damp! There are also fat ladies in skimpy costumes, a man who plays Vivaldi on liquor bottles, an opera singer treated rudely by the maitre d' and a food critic who can't stop complaining. "It's like eating at Denny's!" he shouts. The whole...
DIED. DAVID BEGELMAN, 73, film producer; of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles. Though Begelman was president of Columbia Pictures during a flush period in the '70s (his tenure produced hits like Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Shampoo), he risked it all by becoming a check forger. Yet such was Hollywood's awe of his golden touch that Begelman's career barely suffered when his larceny was revealed. His most recent venture, Gladden Entertainment, went bankrupt last year, and Begelman was reported to be deeply depressed by the failure--a transgression, after all, that...
...from giving Vietnam most-favored-nation trading status. Still, the Vietnamese seem eager to plow ahead. Said Deac Jones of Connell Bros. Co., a distributor of U.S. consumer goods in Vietnam: "The majority of people here are very pro-American. If you have the exact same brand product, a shampoo made in the U.S. and the Philippines, they will pay more...