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...ideal, a new symmetry of features raising its profile in still and moving pictures. It sells mood, merchandise, magazines and, soon, movies. It holds all the history and mystery of an older world, all that intelligence and sophistication, but with one bright eye fixed on the dream of international stardom. It is the new face of Europe...
...possible that Kinski's own fantasy has little to do with stardom, at least of the Hollywood variety. Though she will play Susie the Bear in the movie version of John Irving's The Hotel New Hampshire, Kinski will continue to make European films "because they are such a big part of me." One project she may direct but not star in is a script she wrote called Day and Night. It is, she says, "like a fairy tale that shows the day and night of human beings. There are two characters: a beautiful woman about 35, who has never...
...odds are against her, on three counts. No European performer since Audrey Hepburn has become a blazing star of American movies; actresses these days have fewer options, fewer succulent roles offered them, than actors; and American films are in a period of relative indifference toward the very notion of stardom, instead putting their faith in big-budget special effects and no-name sex comedies. Kinski may have to settle for her current status as a celebrity commodity, for whom each film is not so much a vehicle as an expensive commercial for some exotic fragrance. "Nastassia No. 1 ... Share...
Good looks have always been at a premium in Hollywood, but in the '70s men who looked odd, unusual or perhaps just real-a bald Telly Savalas or an impish Robin Williams-also achieved TV stardom. "It was the heyday of the average guy," says Joel Thurm, head of talent for NBC. "The country was prosperous. People were relatively satisfied with their lives and were able to laugh at themselves a little more. Now we're looking for heroes again. We want fantasy and glamour...
...Magnum is set in Hawaii, a location that allows Selleck, 38, to romp on the beach and show off his grizzly-bear chest to the camera with once-a-week regularity. No. 2 in the latest Nielsen ratings, the show has apparently propelled Selleck to movie stardom as well. His first feature film, High Road to China, displaced Tootsie as the box-office leader upon its release March 18. A lethargic imitation of Raiders of the Lost Ark, with a wild chase across Asia in '20s biplanes, High Road has little besides Selleck to recommend it. But that...