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...opposite Bogart, Bogarde, Flynn, Benny and Gable, Alexis Smith finally gets to play the harlot Xaviera instead of hard to get. She slides down stairs and moseys off stage convincingly enough, but the Texas Tally Wackers--the "orchestra"--drown out her songs. She's still a pretty classy old whore, and does her best to compensate for a script crammed full of non-sequiturs. The storyline slips readily from bathos to pathos and back again...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Dead Solid Texas | 10/9/1979 | See Source »

...Orleans, Pretty Baby, and Jodie Foster in Martin Scorsese's contemporary shocker, Taxi Driver. Each movie caused a mild outcry, but the general reaction was nervous acceptance. The phenomenon they dealt with was real enough; as Malle took to pointing out, you can hire a twelve-year-old whore any night on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...children," says Lament Johnson, who directed Mariel Hemingway in Lipstick and Diane Lane in Cattle Annie and Little Britches, a western film scheduled for release next spring. "Until about a decade ago, girls were dainty untouchables, unless they were little mutts. Hollywood had a Latin view of them, the whore or the madonna." If a script called for a very young girl to play a suggestive role, directors looked around for slightly built older actresses. When the film version of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita appeared in 1962, it was considered scandalous that Sue Lyon, a not particularly slight 14 when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...that it is hard for them to remember how they felt. Lane, who was six when she won a role in a La Mama Theater production of Medea?in Greek?was asked to say words backwards to determine her linguistic facility. Shields had to smash plates, because the young whore in Pretty Baby has a scene in which she smashes glass photographic plates. Mariel Hemingway did not have to go through an audition; as Lipstick began to take form, someone mentioned to her older sister Margaux, the star, that a girl had to be found to play her younger sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...told again, by the alleged "creator of the female language for sexuality" that the sexually aggressive woman is a whore and that to be truly female is to be a masochist? For the time being, God help us, we're better off with Playgirl...

Author: By Suzanna Rodell, | Title: It's Worse the Second Time | 5/3/1979 | See Source »

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