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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14 1998.

How to be a goddess

the hard

THAT stars should

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contrive to be like the girl next door has always struck me rather silly, especially at a time when so many of the girls next door manage to become stars themselves.

Miss Bette Davis has never been in this category: she is of a diferent vintage, fine old brandy rather than lemon Aquash.

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If nothing elsė, zidi huu rarity value: there is nobody elso like her, nobody else with those swamp-like eyes which grip you and don't let go. Ob- serving Miss Davis in Juli spate, one was always appren- alva test the should blow fuse; all the nervous wiring ot her body seemed to be mould- oring.

TEARS

1

way.

was just a workman, says Bette Davis

-maybe it was better that way

LIMELIGHT by Thomas

suffered every trauma 13 the text-book and inflicted a few herself; in the grip of some emotion, love, hale, revenge, she has chumed up the desire,

screen, like a harpooned whnie,

Sho is the goddess of unsc- quited love. On the whole, one must be thankful that one's next door neighbours are not a it like Bette Davis.

EPITAPH

Wiseman

the hard way. Nobody ever told me that I was divine.

The Warner Brothers for whom I

technique,, worked didn't believe la that AL MGM they believed in the red carpet treat- ment to their sturs; al Wainer Brothers you were just work- men. I suppo.e in the long run, that was the better way of the two, though I should have liked to know what it feels like to be told that cue is divine.

really

have

had to fight for that, Kalbar. ine Hepburn bod the Rom tight. I never cared a Jot abun how I looked.

BETTERAVIS

.definitely

not the giri

next door

her

"In sileni me you And to look like film stars; I was fight ing to be allowed to look like people. When I was 30 I play- ed Elizabeth the First who was mudd cought offer to Bed supposed to be 10-1 played her whole world clumbling away as Da sho was then, bald, with- the rowk uld. But it is not t out eyebrown. Of course I problem that I have had. didn't mind. 1 never Kave a thought to how I looked."

REALISM

with

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Kort

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