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...decides how to cash in. For saleable she is; her face has all the provocative potential the publicity shills lead you to believe, and she possesses an evident acting talent that here lies largely seem to decide whether to make Violet, the girl prostitute, into a victim or a vixen. Malle could have cast her as the silent but justice, like Anna in Carlos Saura's recent haunting film, Cria. Or Violet could have childhood--the kid forced to grow up too core of vulnerability. (Jodie Foster's teenage comes to mind.) Instead, Violet's is a face...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Malle a la Coquette | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

Pisier, the betrayed wife in last year's Cousin, Cousine, makes a peppery vixen, but ultimately her performance is blunted by two language problems: hers and the script's. Beck's pilot, who ought to be an irresistible heel, could be upstaged by a Parisian lamppost. Pisier's detectives tell her halfway through the film that they have found him, but dramatically, he remains a missing person throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tabloid Style | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

Among the spinoffs of the Fox housing proposal (for God's sake, don't stop reading now, there's a joke in the next clause of this sentence)--aside from the accidental relocation of the entire Harvard Square vixen population to North Cambridge by a well-lubricated Buildings and Grounds workman who misunderstood his foreman's instructions--is the Strange Brew Coffeehouse, which opened last Sunday night on the fourth floor of Hilles library...

Author: By Harry W. Printz, | Title: FOLK | 4/21/1977 | See Source »

...Vixen, on Cupid, on Mangol Bayat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven Lords A-Leaping... and Other Seasonal Matters | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

...George Jessel is a very sexy man," coos Edy Williams, 33, breathy-voiced, barely talented star of soft-porn cinema (Vixen) and former wife of X-Rated Moviemaker Russ Meyer. Edy, who last flung her affections at ex-Mobster Mickey Cohen (TIME, Sept. 1), is now making the rounds at Hollywood parties with the Toastmaster General, 78. "He treats me like a lady. He's a living legend, and he's still living it," insists Williams, who serves Jessel seven vitamins each day to combat his arthritic aches and pains. Jessel, thriving on such fare, is taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 17, 1976 | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

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