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Indeed it is, but Candice's limited talent has not restrained runaway demands for her services. Now 24, she has starred in eight motion pictures, most of them (The Group, The Sand Pebbles, The Adventurers, Soldier Blue) requiring beauty, a Trojan endurance and little artistry. Offscreen, her talents are so plentiful that they almost drive her to dilettantism. She has modeled, shot photos for Playboy, and written articles for Vogue, Esquire, Cosmopolitan and the Los Angeles Times. In Getting Straight, Co-star Elliott Gould helped unearth a tantalizing shard of acting ability. She received $200,000 for a western...
...would have been more interesting to show Canaletto's view of Venice next to Guardi's Venice rather than placing a Tintoretto in between. And why is Vermeer's Young Woman between Claude Lorrain's turbulent Trojan Women and Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women? For chronology or for a calm between two storms? Why not pair the Vermeer with Holbein's portrait of a German merchant? Pairing would at least make the viewer question why the two paintings were paired. Even pointing out both artists' attention to detail, would be better than just letting the viewer admire...
...makings of a classic confrontation-the convergence of four female stars in Madrid to film The Trojan Women. A concatenation of cats? A frisson of felines? Not at all. Playing mother hen, Katharine Hepburn (Hecuba) immediately put rebellious Vanessa Redgrave (Andromache) at ease by warmly embracing her when Vanessa arrived with her daughter. Meeting Senevieve Bujold (Cassandra), Katie called her "My child," to which the young Canadian actress responded with a deferential "Madame." Even Greek-born Irene Papas (Helen) was filled with love. Asked how she felt about working with her longtime mentor and friend, Director Michael Cacoyannis, she replied...
This time, to be sure, one formidable personal obstacle to British entry is absent: Charles de Gaulle, whose conviction that London would only be a Trojan horse for American interests kept the British on the outside looking in for nearly a decade...
...equal to nearly any hassle. He has so much energy that he runs ten miles a day to burn off the excess. He does not drink, eats at what he calls "the antipodes of the day," and works like a Trojan the rest of the time...