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...Simone wanted me to do the film," recalls Yves Montand, "but I was on tour at the time. When you play on stage you feel, I wouldn't say young, but good, and to suddenly age for a role. At first I said no." Simone, of course, is his late wife Simone Signoret. The film is Jean De Florette, based on the story by Marcel Pagnol and completed on location in southern France three months after Signoret's death in September. Montand, 64, agreed to do the part only after donning the mustache of his character, the mean-spirited neighbor...
...urbane author, now 52, long ago caught up in style with the blue bloods he admired in his youth. But he has often been beset by doubt. For years after the flop of his Cambridge Footlights revue, he belittled the theater as an art form. His turn to the stage, abandoning a novel halfway through, was an act of desperation. "I lost faith in my own voice, and I liked the stage because the characters do all the talking for you." The shift brought criticism: "I was very conscious of the disapproval of friends and reviewers who felt...
...dresses to kill, they understandably turned to Disco Diva Grace Jones. Due out this summer, the film casts Jamaica-born Jones as Katrina, a 2,000-year-old Egyptian vampire who works in a U.S. nightclub. For a scene in which Katrina performs one of her drop-dead stage acts, Jones' friend, New York Artist Keith Haring, agreed to body-paint her with his characteristic style. True to fanged form, Katrina has a taste for high fashion as well as blood. Explains Jones: "I've never seen a badly dressed vampire." But one who drips paint is a little unusual...
...first time in the long memory of baseball, a father and son played together in a big-league game. The sport has had a rich run of sequels: Boones, Berras and Bells. But not even in a Grapefruit season had two generations ever come to the same stage at the same instant, until Brian singled and stole second in the first inning and Hal followed with a walk. Pausing only for the usual sidelong glance of teammates on base, they both went on to score in a 7-5 Kansas City Royals victory over Philadelphia...
...world's longest-running erotic stage musical," as it is now billed, has changed little since those Pleistocene days, and today's critics would probably make the same judgments as their predecessors. "With all my heart, I recommend staying away from the slick and repulsive come-on called Oh! Calcutta!, "wrote Brendan Gill of The New Yorker. "Voyeurs of the city unite, you have nothing to lose but your brains," added Clive Barnes in the New York Times. "Far from being a sexual stimulant, Oh! Calcutta! is an anaphrodisiac," declared TIME's T.E. Kalem...