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Innocent yet animal. Irena embodies the conflict between the two natures of sexuality, and Kinski, emulating her success in Tess, gives an admirable performance. Though the sexual theme holds great potential for creating vivid, powerful characters, Irena could be played by a stuffed animal. The audience, primed with Cinderella fairytales and pubescent fantasies, already knows Irena's conflict. And so director Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Hardcore. Blue Collar) uses his characters as no more than props...
When Director Roman Polanski (Tess), 48, was mulling over candidates to portray Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the upcoming Paris production of the Broadway hit Amadeus, he cast his eye near and far, and finally settled on near. He chose himself. After all, who better to capture the essence of the young musical prodigy with the libertine air than a child actor turned acclaimed adult director with a sometime taste for the reckless moment. Polanski, who will direct the play, which stars Francois Périer, 62, as Mozart's nemesis Antonio Salieri, and Actress Sonia Vollereaux...
...silver streamers?at least a few moguls and a newsreel camera. Someone important might have been there to introduce these two acting legends about to cross paths for the first time. "Alice Adams, meet Young Mr. Lincoln. Mary of Scotland, this is Wyatt Earp. Tracy Lord, Tom Joad. Tess Harding, Mister Roberts. Ethel Thayer, say hello to Norman Thayer Jr. Katharine Hepburn. . .Henry Fonda...
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...celebrated his 50th year as a cartoon hawkshaw. So did his creator, Chester Gould, 80. Gould, now in affluent retirement in Woodstock, Ill., first dubbed his hero "Plainclothes Tracy," The moniker soon changed and later, so did Tracy. After an 18-year courtship, he finally wed his blond sweetie Tess Trueheart, and, says Gould: "I left Tracy a little more handsome than he was in 1931." In 1977 Chester passed on his pen to two young successors, Rick Fletcher, and Allan Collins, after "46 years, two months and 21 days on the job." But he is grumpy about the current...