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...cover this month should warn you what to expect. It is pink and hand-tinted, a rather bizarre close-up of that very bizarre film star, Shelley Duvall. Duvall wears her exquisitely vacant stare--deep eyes beneath wispy bangs looking vaguely pre-Raphaelite. This is a fan magazine for people whose sensibilities are affronted by the lack of subtlety in run-of-the-mill collections of chit-chat with the stars...
Till now Diane Keaton has been able to wander down a Manhattan street with out drawing more than an occasional half-suspicious stare. She lets herself be kept waiting for two hours in a Southern California beach restaurant because the maitre d' cannot imagine that this tall, apologetic young woman in sunglasses and floppy clothes is someone who might merit his attention...
Indeed, there is probably a little of him in the wise commissaris. Practical Hollander though he is, the old fellow reminds one of the ancient Chinese in Yeats who stare on "all the tragic scene...
...Cunningham, 18, of Jackson, Mich. In March 1975 Cunningham's car plunged through the ice of a frozen pond; when rescuers hauled him out 38 minutes later, his body was blue. He had no pulse, his breathing had stopped, and his eyes were fixed in a dilated, glassy stare. Cunningham, in fact, was declared dead from drowning. Then he belched. The involuntary reaction convinced rescuers that, despite all contrary evidence, they should try to revive him. A high-speed ambulance ride, two hours of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and 13 hours of breathing assistance later, Cunningham regained consciousness-and more...
Even by Italian standards, the intensity tends to get out of hand, particularly in the otherwise compelling performance of Giancarlo Giannini as the son. Scarcely a ciao can be spoken without a soulful stare, a strangled sob or an eloquently twitching nose. The cool restraint of Catherine Deneuve, which on other occasions can seem maddeningly vacuous, here supplies a welcome relief. She is a fetching brunette in this film. Playing Giannini's sister, she floats through all the gnashing and weeping with a fragile and captivating serenity...