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...burden as teen-agers caught in an obsessive love. The director is in ecstasy; he wants to start another film with Brooke (paying her $1 million and a percentage of the profit) as soon as he can. In the meantime, for Brooke, what delights does life hold? "Studies," says Teri firmly. At this point a reporter, digging deep for a question, asks whether there will be a Brooke doll, as there was a Farrah Fawcett doll. "Yeah," says the enchanted child, sounding for the moment like any put-upon teenager. "Wind it up and it goes to school." -By John...
Brooke's likability is worth emphasizing because her mother has molded her life from the beginning in ways that seem frightful when retold. Teri, 47, was divorced from Frank Shields, 39, now a vice president of a New York executive head-hunting firm, after five months of marriage. She began trotting Brooke around to photographers' studios before the child could talk in sentences, stuck her in her first movie (Alice, Sweet Alice) when she was nine and pushed her forward at eleven for the controversial role of the child prostitute in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby...
Skeptical onlookers must admit that Brooke seldom misses Mass and that Teri seems to have managed her upbringing just as successfully as she has managed Brooke's career...
...feeling is, in fact, that Teri has protected Brooke too much...
...heartbreaking beauty who from Vogue's cover projects an ancient soul can act eight years old in her mother's presence. "Mommy, I have a toothache," she will whine "Oh, Mommy, my nail." Teri plays her part smotheringly: "Use that fork for your cake." "Say hello." "Say please." It is reasonable to wonder when and how Brooke might break loose...