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...fallow period, and she played Peter Pan's young Wendy in the hollow that was Hook. She got a break at 19 when she was cast as the evil Ginnie (she steals jewelry from corpses) in Steve Kloves' Flesh and Bone. Wearing Lolita sunglasses and a play-dumb smile, she displayed slow sass and a wicked intelligence. "She was sunshine and light when she walked into the room," says Kloves of Paltrow's audition, "but as soon as she read, a veil came over her and she totally inhabited the character. She had tons of spontaneity and raw nerve...
Think of Emma as the overattentive hostess at the endless round of parties that constitute an Austen novel. As she speaks her wry epigrams, she brandishes a smile that suggests wisdom gaily bestowed on lesser mortals. Though it crinkles with warmth, it is exactly one shade too pleased with itself. Emma could be one of nature's noblewomen, if only she would stop trying to stage-manage other people's lives. Graceful and witty, she is a goddess whose comic flaw is that she wants to play...
...with a heart of gold as she is a hooker 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...
...tires (ok, maybe their eyes are only big from the Vivarin they took to write that Historical Studies B-52 paper) and ask me how I manage to do all the things I do and still have time to relace my tennis shoes on Thursday evenings. Then I just smile that winning smile and tell them how I manage to save so much time. I tell them how I do it. And that...
...Britain, film art lagged. Stage actors were ashamed of their film work. The trick, as John Gielgud says with a smile, was to "Shut your eyes...and think of England." Britain's most gifted director, Alfred Hitchcock, didn't think of England; he learned his trade from the Americans and the Germans. On the set, instead of "Action!" he'd cry "Achtung!" Cinema Europe reveals him as an impishly sadistic fellow--he is seen lifting an actress' skirt while she tries to rehearse. But Hitch could make movies; Hollywood saw that. He went to the U.S., as had Lubitsch, Lang...