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...women do before walking the dog on a weekend morning. She does her own makeup, which means she throws on some eyeliner, mascara and blush--unless she has mislaid it, as she did in Columbus; then she just runs a brush through her hair. "I'm coming from a tomboy type of position," she says. She changes into black pants that fit tight over her skinny legs and one of the 12 chiffon shirts she had tailored in emerald, salmon and aqua hues. Has she had her colors done? She gives a withering look...
...kidding. In her 23-film career?one of the rare Hong Kong actresses whose age, 31, exceeds the number of her movies?she has uglied-up, gotten disfigured, played a schizophrenic, a tomboy, a killer, a lesbian, and the plain old-fashioned bitch. In First Love: The Litter on the Breeze, she's described by one character as having "Satan's eyes." Few actresses would jump at a chance to play a female character named Turkey but she did, in Stephen Chow's God of Cookery. She tucked away her plumage to create a visually impaired, bucktoothed, kick-ass noodle...
DIED. KIM STANLEY, 76, protean Broadway actress, most admired for portraying a dizzying range of characters--a tomboy kid sister in William Inge's Picnic (1953), a nightclub chanteuse in Bus Stop (1955)--with notable humor and pathos; in Santa Fe, N.M. Stanley also made a few scattered but striking film appearances, earning Academy Award nominations for her roles as a deranged psychic in Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) and the tyrannical mother in Frances...
...Tomb Raider fans. "I didn't want a bimbo movie all about tight costumes," says Simon. "With Angie, I can get an Oscar-winning performance in every scene, but she'll still satisfy the lust in Lara that everyone sees...She's sexy, and I think a very slight tomboy. People are also now comfortable with female action leads. People can have their cake...
...Tomb Raider fans. "I didn't want a bimbo movie all about tight costumes," says Simon. "With Angie, I can get an Oscar-winning performance in every scene, but she'll still satisfy the lust in Lara that everyone sees... She's sexy, and I think a very slight tomboy. People are also now comfortable with female action leads. People can have their cake...