Word: vanessa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dual role in Second Serve was an extremely sensitive one, so studio executives were shown test footage of "a young man" they were told was being considered. Laughs Executive Producer Linda Yellen: "We kept them going and then revealed it was Vanessa." By all accounts, Vanessa Redgrave gives an uncanny performance as Richard Raskind, the New York ophthalmologist who underwent transsexual surgery, became Renee Richards and joined the women's pro tennis tour. "I hold a tremendous empathy for her," said Redgrave, "a woman trapped inside a man's body." The actress's work in the film, which airs...
...something is missing. Why should I, as a man, change my attitudes? How can I? Vanessa Williams was a sex object before the Penthouse pictures were published, even before she entered the Miss America pageant, at least to the men who passed her on the street. Art is objectification; looking is objectification. We categorize and stereotype all the time. It's the way the mind works...
When Amy asked what the Polaroids would be used for, Chan assured us that no pictures could be used without a release. The Polaroids were just for the selection process. If we didn't make it, they would burn the pictures. We talked about Vanessa Williams' Penthouse pictures. He said Playboy was offered those first and wouldn't touch the pictures. His organization didn't do that kind of work. The women who pose for him do it because they want to. Playboy had nude pictures of Caroline Kennedy, of jackie kennedy, but wouldn't use them...
...Stallone were an entertainment giant with some flaky political views, a sort of right-wing Vanessa Redgrave, then the Theatricals might have some sort of defense. They are handing out an entertainment award, not the Nobel Peace Prize. But Stallone's last two films were cynically obvious attempts to milk every last dollar out of old wounds and reflexive aggression. The politics of Rocky IV and Rambo were essential to their demagogic appeal...
...pretty but plodding historical sagas is less surprising. With its lavish sets (including the 17th century Kremlin) and the proverbial cast of thousands, the eight- hour, $27 million epic looks spectacular. Maximillian Schell, the most prominent of four actors who play Peter, has moments of leonine power, and Vanessa Redgrave is striking as his treacherous sister. But the rest of the all-star cast--including Hannah Schygulla, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard and Mel Ferrer--is lost in the pageantry. Edward Anhalt's script is flabby and inert, and history is contaminated with hokey invention (a bogus meeting in London...