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...drop the subplot line in which she was featured when the first cut of the movie ran over three hours. Nevertheless, the reticent director calls her "a wonderful actress, a delight." Bernardo Bertolucci is equally enamored: the actress stars in his latest film, a midsummer night's Tuscan dream called Stealing Beauty, which opens this week. Last week she finished shooting a film with the Irish director Pat O'Connor, who previously made Circle of Friends. And then there's That Thing You Do, well known in Hollywood as Tom Hanks' directorial debut, in which Tyler plays the groupie...
...Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty, Tyler visits a Tuscan villa where the regulars rhapsodize over her innocence, her naturalness, her cutiful-beautifulness. In James Mangold's Heavy, she is a waitress at an upstate New York diner, and the cow-size chef gets mooncalf eyes at her approach. These movies are all about looking at Liv. They are votive offerings to a budding star from old connoisseurs and randy swains. When the camera isn't genuflecting before Tyler, it's copping a feel...
...probably has something to do with the food, the wine, the art and centuries of adoration by foreigners. That this New York City husband-and-wife photography team can retain an enthusiastic eye after 30 years of travel through the region is evident in their fresh images of familiar Tuscan sights: Florence's rooftops, bell towers and famous statuary; Pisa's leaning tower; country villas and vineyards...
Does the lure of a fine patisserie or the whiff of a Tuscan supper translate into greater book sales? They seem to. More than 980 million adult books were sold in 1993 (the last year for which figures are available), 64 million more than the previous year, and superstores report that their sales are growing 15% a year on average. "The great advantage to the superstores is simply that they buy more titles," says Roger Straus, president of the venerable publishing house Farrar Straus & Giroux. "More books in the best-seller echelon are being sold, and it would be unfair...
...police cars blocking the street leading to our hotel were not exactly what I had in mind. I persisted. After all, what was another hour in this land of full-bodied wine and Tuscan food...