Word: uma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marlene Dietrich + Jamie Lee Curtis = Uma Thurman. A gown worn first by Dietrich, then by Curtis (3), netted the same price as one worn by Thurman alone...
...vagaries of buzz. Nicole Kidman comes to Broadway in a David Hare trifle, and the theater world foams at the mouth in anticipation. Uma Thurman, another hot film star, makes her off-Broadway debut in a Moliere classic and gets a big yawn. To be sure, her performance betrays inexperience: slouchy and tentative instead of brittle and biting. But the production around her is smashing. Director Barry Edelstein puts slick designer duds on Crimp's smart update of the play to the phony '90s show-biz world, and the terrific Roger Rees, as Alceste, could teach any young actress...
Supermodels really usurped the glamour business in the late '80s, when Hollywood stars like Julia Roberts decided to get grunged out in sweats and baseball caps for public events. What else was PEOPLE magazine to do? Then, at the 1995 Oscars, Uma Thurman showed up in some Prada dress that everyone seemed to like a whole lot, and sex symbolism returned to Hollywood. Now designers fight to establish relationships with actresses like Cameron Diaz, Tea Leoni and Claire Danes. And models get to dress badly. Last week Schiffer showed up at a New York City movie premiere wearing jeans...
...warm mother, an edgy and depressed artist, a lunatic and finally a resident of hell. None of her various incarnations seem remotely connected to another, and in each she is given an outlandish haircut that does her acting for her. When she has the severe, cropped look of Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, you know that tragedy is imminent. We never know why Robin Williams would risk hell for her, simply because we don't clearly know who, or rather which, incarnation...
...Meanwhile, vengeance -- of a difference sort -- is Uma's as TV's Peel and Steed (Ralph Fiennes) make their big-screen debut as "The Avengers" hits multiplexes nationwide...