Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Assigned in February to do a photo story for the French edition of Vogue, a magazine he occasionally works for, Polanski chose for his model the 13-yearold daughter of a San Fernando Valley woman he had known for a year. Although he reportedly assured the mother that the girl would be fully clothed, during their first photo session he had her strip to the waist. Two and a half weeks later Polanski picked the girl up in his leased Mercedes for a second shooting session, one which ended up at the Mulholland Drive home of Polanski's good...
...historical duty, as witness to a unique moment in human transactions, that propelled his work for the next three decades. It transcended formalism without damaging his aesthetic sense. Any event is an infinitely divisible string of moments, and Hine had an uncanny eye for the right one. An Italian woman, carrying a floppy bundle of sweatshop piecework on her head through the Lower East Side, is transformed into an icon of labor - solid as a young Mother Courage, but turned into a caryatid by the iron lamp post that rises above her head, exactly on the axis of her body...
Lily is Lily Tomlin-of course. The reporter is Lily Tomlin-of course. And the chameleon is Lily Tomlin too. Indeed, if someone were to ask the real Lily Tomlin to stand up this week when she opens her one-woman show on Broadway, there would be either dead silence-or a forest of waving hands...
Tess the Bag Woman would be next. She sells potholders, rifles garbage cans and chats with little guys in flying saucers. "Tell them the world is cracked," one of them commanded her a while back. "Boy," she sighs, "did I know that." If nobody believes her when she says the world is cracked, her friends from space instruct her, she should take the message to the National Enquirer. "Even if they don't believe you," the saucerites say, "they might run it anyway...
Lily Tomlin, at age 37, the woman with the kaleidoscopic face, is just about that clever herself. She becomes the embodiment of Edith Ann, Lupe, Rick, Tess and a dozen or so others so quickly and flawlessly that she fools even the pros. "I don't think Tomlin really acts," says Robert Benton, who directed her in the year's sleeper film hit, The Late Show. "Her imagination is so vast that she just assumes the personality of the character...