SHOW
BUSINESS
THE CHINA MAIE, SATURDAY, JULY "K, "1988.
Roderick Mann
Miss Bardot's co-star is trying
Girl with a future
Barbara Lang han platinum halt, a contract with M-G-M and a plum role in The Party Girl-in which she appears opposite Robert Taylor and Cyd Charisse.
stunning looking girl. Bør Alm bosses predlet a big future for her.
Dirk The
Prowler Should Really Grow Up
MR
[R_DIRK_BOGARDE'S new film, The Wind Cannot Read, is a would-be serious, sensitive, and passionate story of forbidden love in war-time, with Mr Bogarde cast as the passionate lover.
He is, this time, an heroic RAF officer, Shot down and wounded, he has trudged back through the Japanese lines. Grounded, and unfit for any more active flying, he is sent to "school" in Delhi to learn Japanese. He is to spend the remainder of his war interrogating prisoners taken in the jungle fighting.
But Japanese is a Janguage which takes a long time to learn. Before destiny. throws him back into the Jungle, it gives him a very long course of extra-mursi énalruction in the arms of his teacher.
She Is Japanese girl, em- ployed in teaching her language to this assurled "batch of very
DEREK
MONSEY
at the shows
Bogarde makes a desperate attempt to escape and succeeds.
Wounded agains, heróic again,
to live it down
WHEN
[ Page 13
THE STARLET IS OUT!
by Ronald Singleton
Hollywood. THE days and nights of the Starlet are over. They are no longer choosing the baby-faced, bright-eyed young girls and the fetish of the large bosom, slender waist, lovely legs.
WHEN I walked into the restaurant Stephen Boyd was sitting in the
corner-sporting a smart grey suit and what looked like a year's travelled round in a mink bikini a Welsh drogan. growth of hair.
I put a French magazine on the table in front of him.
"What's this?" he asked.
"It's got pictures of you and Brigitte Bardot in The Night That Heaven Fell,"
I said. "I thought you'd like to see it."
The smile left his face like the sea running back from the sand. furtive look around the restaurant, he thrust the magazine out of sight.
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With a
They are tired of them? und Married twice, marriage dis- what almost always came with solved twice, now nged 20 years, them: lack of brains, and no she lives in a remote house In |neling sense,
Tiger Canyon with her 20- The last of the starlets wen month-old son, recordia and Terry Moore, the girl who books and a jalopy painted like
(or was it chinchilla?).
She has no jewellery andi 'no They used to think the star- wardrobe. let would grow and, become a star and replace the guttering galaxy. of Garsons, Crawfords. Lund Starycks.
It seldom worked. They chose the eyes and bosom und Įtried to graft on an‘detress.
The young actresses of Holly- intellectual,
PRIVACY
She talks alternately of car- bluetters, Bela Bartok's Violin Concerto, brake-linings, and Dylan Thomas,
She pays frequent visits to a And admits it.
"Like to see it?" he echoed the most sensitive part of Mrs Peers agrees that there wood 1938. are bollowly, "I've spent the past six
are times when she is disturbed, swo! their scripts, seldom date, psychiatrist our producers' anatomy... months trying to forget about it. their toes.
"Like the time I anw a picture shun gossip writers. They are (Peyton Place" put her in The most terrible thing I've ever
For he has done an unheard of Jayne being hoisted in mid-different and they call them hospital a week.) done. If ever there was a good of thing-agreed to star in
nir by Mickey during a premiere. eggheads, offbeat, oddballs. Diane had not quite found reason for the British consor to nimed television series: The But Jayne Dasured me later it. They are an odd lot, It is true, herself but Hollywood had found resign-this is it."
Four Just Men. Making him, I was just a whim that occurred but they are responsible for her and what it would do with
some of Hollywood's best cur- her she did not mind. belleve, the first co-ranking on the spur of the moment."
See how wrong you can be rent performances.
Some others are not like Dlane Vars but they are serious 'giris about people?
who
won't be glamourised. There is no "leg art" depart
He groped for a drink. "So far," he said, "most cen- sors have banned 11 out of hand. I don't blame then. It makes And Woman Wat Created look like something for dren's TV."
chil-
He looked at me wildly, "When I was doing the love scenes with Bardot the director kept urging: 'Do it so we'll get banned. Don't be so damned British. Do It we'll
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gel banned.""
"And you dkI?”
British star ever to sign for a TV series while $10! major films.
making
And putting him in direct competition with himsek--for it is quite possible that Hawkins
the TV stor will be on view at the same time
that his latest
alm The Two-Headed Spy is being shown.
What has 47-year-old Haw- kins to say about it?
"Listen..
PLAYING IT SAFE
RUN AWAY
To name a few, they are ment nowadays In the photo ber next Alm Diane Varal ("Peyton Place"), rooms of thelf studios, Cinderella Nightingale | Joanne Woodward ("No Down JOANNE WOODWARD was a Payment), Suzy Parker ("Fun- smalFlown Georgia high school Miss Carole Lesley plays a girl of little talent who-ny Face").
girl. She yearns for a job in the achieves stardom on the "I had a dete with Dlane. It theatre, la happy "not being a
was for one. She was still miss- film stor." strength of her figure.
"That," ing at two. It was whispered:
she sold in a rich Ske winds up at the Cannes | "She's an oddball-unpredict- Southern tongue, "would be they are paying Festival-and then walks out on able." me the same money that I'd get the man who discovered
kinda awful. Kinda Invudin' yo for a big picture. And this your series will reach millions of promoted her.
people. I agree that I may be good competing with myself, but TV Apart from the love is like breathing-it's just got to scenes I just stand about look in done." ing boggle-eyed at Bardot."
"You and me both," I sald "Agreed," he soldi "But after all I was being paid to act."
"I had to," said Boyd "What," asked, "Is
role in the film?”
"Ah," said Boyd. "A question.
FOOTNOTE (1) A copy of
JUST A CHILD!
★ WE are
it seems, ali terribly, terribly wrong
and
Recently Miss Lesley herself was off to the Cannes Festival. I noticed that casting director Bob Lennard, who first suggested her for an Association-British con- tract, took no chances
He didn't go.
THE EXCEPTION
the film-presumably in asbestos about Mas Jayne Mans. MB BORIS
Acid, who is over here
The who is to make
Sherly-.- of Fractured Jaw.
wrapping-----has just been Blown to Mr Frank Sinatra contemplating making a picture with Miss Bardot. As yet he has made no comment.
FOOTNOTE (2): Boyd- fine actor has www left for Rome where he is to co-star in Ben Hur. If the Bardot film ever catches up with him he says he will fing himself under a charlot.
HAWKINS-TV STAR
TACK, HAWKINS one of the British flm indus- try's few heavy-weighis--
the
storics.
French
I went out to search for her. privacy." I found the girl with blonde SUZY PARKER, hale, white shirt, and tight- fashion model born in Texas, “I slacks pushing o know a lot about fashions, but tung black
nine-year-old car I'm not interested in them, I steaming along the highway, a baby only ask that my clothes don't gurgling in the front seat, it too tight. Most American
She wore nt make-up,
women wear outfits that are too revealing."
It was sad, brillant, remote Diane Vorst, the girl who la gel- ting Hollywood's new limelight. This girl had a sad upbring- KARLOFF Ingshe had run away from
WHISPER IT
What changed the grooming has been discussing parents, relatives, friends of Hollywood's young Women harmful effects, if hitch-hiked, hoboed, slept on from the pin-up style to the any, of children's, nursery the prairie with a basket of ap- bevy of serious-faced actredícs For a true picture of the cur
ples and hard-boiled eggs by of 1858? vaceous Miss Manafield we must
**You know," he says, her zlde.
It was a technique Alm men turn to her mother, Mrs Vera J. Where is much more horror and She hated Alms and loathed learned from television, they Peers.
violence in nursery tales than glamour. But she discovered "I nm," she says, "constantly on television or the screen. Weeting and wrote a letter: "Dear hurt a ccrtala comments 1 have all been brought up on Grappa: I want to take acting hear about Jayne. I've
heard them-and none of us has lessons. So send me some money, her described as a 'sexy, dumb turned out a monster. Except, Also send me some more, I'ma blonde' when actually she's just, of course, me."
hairbreadth array from achiev-
ing her college degree."
What of Mickey "Hargitay, to whom Jayne is wed?
Saya Mrs Peers: "He regarde Jayne the way I do-as a child; has landed with a thud on who needs protection."
When A TV
Star Goes
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Off The Rails
starving."
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whisper (off the record).
TV pul talent first, books second and.didn't worry about breast measurements.
That was the real death of the Strict.
THE SYMBOL, OF PRECISION
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The Wind Cannot Read is an expertly made, beautifully 3. In a sudden outburst ad- "Sit down--g take your old-fashioned Westem kind of good performances from minor their products.
photographed im with some vised his audience not to buy seat," suddenly rapped. Oscar. "And when you leave don't turn sad "Sabby" protestation.
On the Channel 13, which screened your brek on
audience." the unrehearsed 35-minute Oscar Levent show three Umes week, told Levant You're out."
British officers, Fragrant cherry blossom, pretty, kittenlsh, and curiously (played with a mildly pleasant degree of wistfulness by Miss
Their love flourishes. It can culled a passionate
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Through a seemingly intermin- Where it fails primarily is in Snapped Levánt: “I apologiso able succession of gorgeous its fechle
ball-heartedness: In ➡to the accompaniment ok The angry sponsors repre backgrounds — Jaipur, the
suddenly. received bazaars of Delhi, the romantic is refusal to deal passionately Beethoven's Ninth Symphony" sentatives
telephone calls from their com- 1climax of the Taj Mahal-they and honestly with the problems
of love and marriage between The row began backstage et pany: "Cancel all your com- persevere in their extra-marital Englishmen and Japanese.
Hollywood's KCOP TV gation, mercials.” Levant is the nervous, twitching. But the most interesting thing, blinking, chain-smoking (85 A note was elipped to Oscar. Interviewer who was rattling through a about it is Mr Bogarde's per cigarettes a day). formance.
budge-podge This is one of his who plays
a of Chopin ludy in
cloud of first films Ainen he was given Chopin mazurkas and Gershwin cigarette smoke. He turned to
right, atter And at last, though forbidden the.
of melodies, sprinkled with tales of the cameras and aid: "I think years by Army regulations, they marry, specialisation in mediocrity, to his days in a paychiatrie ward, we should offer passive resist
ance. The
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good model But don't buy it," immediately Fate, in. usual worth making. dovillah form, kicks them in the
Said Levant later, "I could that commercial He won told his pretty wife have handled
prisoner with a fellow officer,
What comes out, however, is
THE ROW
scat. Bogarde is sent off to the not yet the maturing of an actor Jungle and promptly ambushed by the Japanese and taken persist in considering better Juse would not be reading the instead of the beauty winner. than he looks. Bogarde has commercial. Insteed Ms After all, I cas road my own still got his hooks into the Peter Americs of 1957, Marian Me- poetry, which is better than Pan racket. In this film, where Knight of South Carolina, would those commercials. Despite the It is not unti bo is being Bre, virility, and positivo read them. There was a furious Exercising of a quixolie whim tortured because he refuses to attack
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