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Though still a sophomore in high school, she has just made her eighth movie, Franco Zeffirelli's Endless Love, due out this summer. No one doubts that it was her 1978 film, Louis Malle's haunting Pretty Baby, in which she played a twelve-year-old prostitute, that inspired whatever campy fad exists for very young models. Students of the ridiculous have noticed a trend, or at least a good, hard try at a trend, toward gunking half-sprouted twelve-and 13-year-olds with alarming quantities of makeup and pinning them into getups suitable for jaded jet-setters...
...attraction at a film festival. Then she flew back by way of Rome, where she was photographed in full battle dress for the cover and a big inside feature of the Italian Harper's Bazaar. Then, since she was there and why not, she chummed around with Franco Zeffirelli, who directed her latest film, and helped Designer Valentino show his spring collection, keeping an eye out for one of his dresses to wear at the high school prom back in Englewood...
Endless Love, the Zeffirelli film scheduled for release this GARRY GROSS summer, should answer some of the questions about her acting. She and Actor Martin Hewitt, 19, carry most of the dramatic burden as teen-agers caught in an obsessive love. The director is in ecstasy; he wants to start another film with Brooke (paying her $1 million and a percentage of the profit) as soon as he can. In the meantime, for Brooke, what delights does life hold? "Studies," says Teri firmly. At this point a reporter, digging deep for a question, asks whether there will be a Brooke...
...friendly kid, who, so it is said, was excited at making the cheerleading squad at her private high school in New Jersey. She studies hard when she is on location and says she got two A's and two B's in her last marking period. (Director Zeffirelli did the unheard-of, at Teri Shields' insistence, and closed down the production of his film Endless Love three times while Brooke was acting, once for her exams and twice for previous commercial commitments...
...DeMille's silent epic King of Kings and George Stevens' overwrought 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told. In this new film, there is no digression into the sexual enticements of Salome, no subplot on Barabbas, and no theorizing about the motives of Judas as in Franco Zeffirelli's TV Jesus of Nazareth. On the other hand, there is almost no character development, although Brian Deacon, an English actor, manages to portray a Christ who is much less mystical and more appealing than most of the previous celluloid renderings...