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...good reason. Tough shoot -- they don't come any tougher. Heat. Bugs. Snakes. Minimum crew, equipment. Maximum heightening of the senses deep in exotic country. Sensitive descriptions of people, landscape. Plus. Bogart a total pro -- on time, lines letter-perfect, hating his hairpiece. John Huston an elusive macho sprite -- flitting through the jungle dropping big game, occasional shrewd directorial insights (gave Hepburn Eleanor Roosevelt as role model...
Kemya, a pint-size sprite no more than 5 ft. tall, dropped out of school because she didn't see the point of it. "I don't see a connection between being in school and life after school." Kemy, as her friends call her, was smoking cigarettes at eleven and marijuana at twelve. She lost her virginity early. She says she doesn't use birth control and doesn't worry about getting pregnant. The youngest, Myndell, already has a taste for street life. He likes to dress sharp and pressed his mother until she bought him a $200 bomber jacket...
...hopes soared. Maybe that was why Cappi hadn't called me. She was still beautiful, still svelte, still smelled like rasberry tootsie pops and Sprite, still loved me, and didn't want to frighten me in the way that we were frightening Dave. I admired her intelligence. How clever, I thought, to pretend she was somebody that Dave knew, to let Dave suffer insults, let Dave wonder what monstrosity was lurking at the other end of the line to swallow him up in its beasty claws. Dave could fret, Dave could drive, and Dave would step aside when Cappi threw...
...Retton, 18, as she announced her retirement from full-time gymnastics last week. She wants to "mix with kids my own age" and "get on with my life," albeit at a pace that might exhaust less energetic souls. In addition to taking courses, the 4-ft. 9-in. sprite will continue her commercial endorsements and hopes to be an NBC commentator at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. "I had to stop my real education in the tenth grade," says Retton of her decision. She didn't want to look back later and "wish I went to college." Her first...
...Evett and Kerrick Johnson really have it bad, though. Respectively playing wood sprite Ariel and the demidemon Caliban, they must cover themselves in body makeup. In the words of Kermit the Frog, it's not easy being green; it takes Ben an hour-and-a-half to apply the frog-colored goo that allows him to pass for a sprite. Later, with practice, he hopes to be able to go through the process in a mere hour...