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...moment, Paltrow is filming the role of the sad waif Estella in Great Expectations, due out next year. But if you think she is doomed to play only transatlantic prisses in genteel screen dramas, think again. "Gwynnie is very American," says Kloves, "but the interesting part of American--dark, dangerous. Her appeal is her mystery and unpredictability. It's what people liked about Steve McQueen." Hmmm. Maybe Paltrow can be the one-stop movie star of the next millennium: Grace Kelly and James Dean, in one glorious package...
Haute couture isn't the first thing that one associates with grunge-rock waif Courtney Love, but Next Management has nevertheless signed her up as a model. "She's going to be coming out with a whole new look," says Next. (She has already gone brunet for a movie.) "We see her as someone people will design things for." Chanel barrettes, anyone...
...finally meet young Cosette, a plucky little waif portrayed by Jeaneen Garcia (and Olivia Oguma on alternate nights), and her caretakers the Thernadiers (J.P. Dougherty and Kelly Ebsary), at their roadside inn in Montfermeil. Garcia has a charming--though perhaps overly mature--voice, and the audience feels the abuse she suffers in her foster home. She watches the innkeeper and his wife pamper their own daughter, Eponine (Oguma and Garcia on alternate nights), while she is treated like a servant...
Ryder won't fade soon. Adult roles are imminent; she'll fill the characters as well as the costumes. Once waif thin, she now has a figure so womanly that, after it was on show in a Vogue pictorial, she was accused of having had breast implants. The very notion propels her into a verbal dither. "I'm way too chicken to go under the knife," she says. "The thought of someone touching your breast with something metal is like the most -- it's so -- I mean -- it's horrifying to even think about...
...them next door to her sister-in-law, content to preserve her New England obscurity. Today a would-be Dickinson is more likely to grab a guitar, put together a backup band and hit the road. That was precisely the path taken by Nanci Griffith, a wide-eyed Texas waif who may just be one of America's best poets -- and for sure is one of its best songwriters...