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Show E6 CALENDAR TheSalt Lake Tribune Friday, January 5, 1996 Stowe: Planet Earth, Not Planet Hollywood Carrie Rickey k NEWS SERVICE t Picasso demoiselle come to life There's someth ancient about theactress’ face, also something very modern It’s a compelling face, a time less face, a face you'd travel across timeto see.” says director Terry Gilliam So it figures that Gilliam cast Stowein “12 Monkeys,” his time: traveling thriller/romance curiosity co-starring BruceWillis and Brad Pitt. Thefilm opens Friday aroundthe country andin Phila post-apocalyptic landscape, and across the country On a recent morning, the time- less face wears a bright smile, as rare amid the Manhattan snow drifts as a cactus flower. Stowe 37, resembles both a madonna “Bad Girls,” the interest is people an Benben, the small andantic ae tor with whom she's been in- volved for nearly 16 years T met him in 1980 on the set of ae Gangster Chronicles.’ she says of Benben, star of HBO's “Dream On.’ “He played Meyer Lansky, I played his wife. The ‘discovered’ linist who regains her sight and witnesses a murder shehas no vo- cabulary to describe I spent alot of y she recalls. 1 had a crush on Gary Coo Stowe says, making you think that the gunslinger she been a worthy adversary in a played in “BadGirls” would have showdown with Mr. High Noon. Bothare lean, laconic, iconic. But,” she reflects, “I had — and have — mixed feelings about stars.’ Despite her admiration for the actor, she says, she couldn't reconcile the rugged screen idol s doing a she explains, ‘‘so I felt totally removed from Los Angeles.” She also felt increasingly removed from her schoolmates whenshe was a teen-ager and her father was diagnosed with multiplesclerosis. “At the end, he was like aninfant,” she says. Stowe’s grit — and her current status as the thinking man’s thinking woman — may be the end product of parental conflict The principal thing in my life was music, but my father wouldn't allow it in the house she recalls. “Nonetheless, my mothertook care to get me music lessons. It was a strangewarin the And now I've worked with Gilliam That's the t ys of her Richano Scvicne NEWSWEEK AS { NGS OLLECTION. OF } s SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, DESERET NEWS AMA. MANNS, AS ACTORS AND \ THE MOST IMPRESSIVE IN ONE MOVIE NIRO ARE GREAT 5 sy ‘ eeHE USATODAY FIT IE ACTIN: i010 ‘Splendid, sophisticated, bitingly funny! a romancesodelicious you want it ee Re Lee ewa SISKEL & EBEED never to end!" - L.A. Times. (PG) 12:45 3:00 5:15 7:30 9:45. Alsoplaying ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW mionicHT OnLy! 297-4040 , But he didn't stand a chance until a great poet, Pablo Neruda. gave him the courag and the words to win her heart “eK IK! A WINNING RoMANC Michael Lighteap, BOX OFTICE MAGAZIN : Stone& sent PACINO DENIRO KILMER HEAT WARNER BROS ri WESSTUD! TED LEVINE TH ONVO ICHAEL MANN eu NEANN ARKLEY |UDD OT GOLOETHAL ANONMLCHAN PETER JAN BRUGGE ”* Cu a12:45 4:00 vowwy stereo 7 Mek. THEPOSITCUE POSTING) ei ae Pets Back by popular demand! Today al at 7. 25 and 9:35 IES — A MONTHBY THE LAKE(PG) 5:15. 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DAILY AT. 148 4:45 8:30 SUDDEN DEATH () DIS/THX STEREO ILY AT: 2:20 4:50 7 TOM ANDHUCK {FG} DIS/IHX STEREO 2:00 4:20 7 aclDEAD AND ore ieS 43) DIS DAILY AT:2:40 5:07:20 9.40 (R) SRD/THX FOAL 4:30 4:00 7:40 9:45 {PG-43) DIS STEREO 440 4:45 7:45 10:10 “GET SHORTY" ml GRUMPIER OLO MEN (PG13 Like a kid before her dress-up drawer, she believes that costumesare essential to the process of make-believe. Madeleine Stowe is not from Planet Hollywood. Definitely someonefromplanet Earth THREGENCYENTERPRGES FORWARD PAS DENRO HEAT’ TOM SZEMORE house. It taught me howto be co + SABRINA (PG) wardto Lily Bart's taffeta gowns, plaudits as the blind musician in “Blink” (1994) Davio ANSEN vert.”” In other words, it taught im of doomedheroine Lily Bart w her “favorite novel growing u: Stowesays. She admits that she feels more at homein costumethan in contemporary dramas and looks for- THENEWYORKTIMES PG) 2 oowamer Seanaathe 4 “The House of Mirth.” The saga With her performance as the came from Oregon. Theylived in moderateincome communities such as Glendale. ‘My father was working-elass,”’ Closet Land” (1991). passionate and defiant Cora in Mohicans,” directed by Michael Mann, Stowe graduatedtofirstrate directors. She received enthusiastie critical notice for her performance as the amused wife of a philandering cop in Robert Altman's “Short Cuts” (1993) and Shewas the object of the actor’s He fell in love with the islands most beautiful woman first child in June. Stowe’s mother came to Los Angeles from Costa Rica. Her fa ther, a civil engineer, she ex- withthe sophisticated man-about- = Wah 4 Philippe Rousselot’s directorial debut, a Ken and Vivian Russell adaptation of Edith Wharton's Stowe’s discovery, PERS 1/2" the launch of her big-screen career —David "ke Ook (1990), he waslikewiseacatalyst for the Solus, ‘As | retreated in my adoles- santly watch all the old movies on After her baby is born, Stowe plans tostar in cinematographer 5 The casting was prophetic, for ranch not far from Luckenbach Texas, They're expecting their me,” sponsible for her howto aet It also preparedher forherrole in “Blink” (1994), as a blind vio- first scene was our wedding the pair almost immediately movedin together, They married in 1986 and live on a working “The Tenth Peeping Tomaffections in Stakeout” (1987), in which she per.” and Munroin the 1992 film of “The Last of the Mohicans,” in which shestarred opposite Daniel DayLewis. As Dreyfuss indirectly re- playedthe object ofthe cop’s investigation Her choice of roles has been eclectic. She was thelust object of Keyin Costner and Anthony Quinn in the sex thriller “Re- TV,” by ‘The Deerslayer, in which sheplayed Hetty Hunter. s, “and not a very good ne,” at the El Torito restaurant Thus was launched a career that began, unpromisingly, with a successionof “waif roles” on TV The tall, serious actress, known for her roles in “The Last of the Mohicans” Among her earliest work was the 1978 telefilm of James Fenimore Cooper's learn about performance,” she So in 1977 she volunteered as a stagehandat the Solaris Theater in Beverly Hills, where Rich- kin, is made of iron filings. showinherrelationship with Bri remembers. plains. She was 19, and her only paying work to date had beenas a cence, I'd sit around and inces- on closer examination she Madeleine Stowe screen, Stowe comes on like a fine In life and on that, ‘was Ed Harris’ and Sean Penn’s first work She would later, with more memorable results, incarnate Cora Dreyfuss’ agent, Meyer Mish- contrast that makes her register speaks in agruffalto, and it is this segment ‘| thought it was important for someone who wanted to direct to Paddy Chayefsky's Man.” Talking about growing up on the fringe of the film capital Stowedescribes an “isolated” girl who hid from view with music. andlater, at the movies. and a cowgirl. She is serenity in boots The delicate-looking creature amused apologizing for her professional debut on a “Baretta” episode Likewise for a “Barnaby Jones’ ard Dreyfuss was appearing in delphia the town that supplied ‘12 Monkeys” with its striking mist that, lot of bad work on TV,” shesays. There’s an ease they havein publie.”’ she says of actors. Combine Stowe's natural reticencewith her interest in film and you get a freshmanwhoenrolled at the University of Southern Cal ifornia film school as a would-be director makes Madeleine Stowesuggest a so powerfully. townshe readabout. good at creating themselves These are people who are NEW YORK — Something about the dark. wide-set eyes, the alabaster skin and the coffee-col ored hair that streams like a shawl around her shoulders two-timing dame in “The Two Jakes” (1990), venge” and a subversive jailed and tormented in the political allegory FATHER OF THE BRIDE (PG holiday gift delivers a big smile that will last for days.” Joanna Langfield, TH i MOVIE MINUTE GRUMPIEROLDMEN THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (PG13) “THE BLOCKBUSTER OF THE YEAR!” STILL YELLING. STILL FIGHTING. STILL READY FOR LOVE. 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