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MNKNACf OF IRNMYMM MKERf TWE MDSOAUSTO 1 OMEI MEMUKS has enormous impact in the film industry She’s one of the few NEW YORK — The last time I actresses who has an exclusive met Jodie Foster she was wearing production deal to make any film jeans and a lumbeijack shirt She she wants And she chose “Nell” curled up on the sofa like a child in part because it reflects her own views of what's wrong with so ready for her bedtime story That was six months ago when much of Hollywood “Maverick” was coming out and “When you’re a dramatic actor a lot has changed you want to make character-drive- n films films that are potentialToday she's resplendent in a pray Armani power suit her hair ly important In the old days they is nicely coiffed and her manner is knew how to work films how to all business She’s the star of market them Now every film has “Nell” and her astonishing per- to be ‘Batman ’ Wait a minute! formance is already generating Does that mean it was an unsucOscar talk But more important cessful film because it only made she’s the producer of “Nell” the $40 million? I don’t think every film has to be mass culture You first film to come out of her do try to learn from the lessons of Egg Pictures company Foster has always been a tough others You’d have to be a moron nut to crack in interviews Anynot to know how to market ‘Batthing personal is off limits and if man’ But it’s much trickier dealshe doesn’t like the direction the ing with relationship films conversation is taking she tells “I think the key to ‘Nell’ for me you Yet she’s very open about is there’s been this onslaught of some things especially her work movies that have nothing to do and her ideas about the world in with who we are I mean movies that are about this basic instinct general She’s been acting since she was towards violence and this basic 3 she’s lived through notoriety instinct towards hatred the seven and Yale she’s won two deadly sins Oscars and what die val“This is not a moral imperative ues most is the ability to remain of mine at all I just don’t think it has anything to do with who we private happy and focused “I guess I've lived a different life than so many people” she explains “It was an exceptional life But if you were the daughter of a That’s how I used to look at foreign correspondent living in myself in the mirror and I like that China you would have lived a guy’ different life too “The core of this film is good“Just because it wasn’t the ness It’s about people who want norm doesn’t mean it isn’t to get better Some people are healthy There are some things confused by what that means where 1 have more strengths than They live in this world of bloodother people my age and other letting and fangs People keep things where I nave less experitelling me we want to get worse ence But I think that’s what Kind and Irm sorry I don’t believe that of makes us individuals I don’t The truest and most tangible think I lost a childhood 1 just human feature I can think of is the think I had a different childhood desire and the ability to connect “I know there are a lot of peoWe are entitled to find that by our ple who say ‘look at those cnild ability to hold our hand out and actors the acting in some ways pull somebody in and continually ruined their lives it was somehow try to say ‘This is who 1 am’ This destructive to them’ I don’t know film reminds us of who we used to why it feels like the best gift I was be and who we are and who they ever given such an incredibly constructive environment rs a “Travel all over the place talk from to grownups have them ask you society in the Carolina back-woowhat you think to feel like you When she’s discovered actually have some impact on the she speaks her own language world ” learned from a hermit mother Perhaps because she grew up whose speech was affected by a feeling that way Foster 32 has series of strokes She has no indeed matured into a woi who ence points for what is considered B1 ABMffiOMMC REPRESEMr TXnOHAUSM I’M FREE ID EXPRESS MfSElFWlU PURE FORM SPECIFIC 90ERPRE-TXHO- H GIUES MM TO A MORE VISCERAL RESPONSE Post-Gazet- te best-actie- ss ds tv ‘('VVlrnwr v - P i$ t J T awaifl jk m (Ujtelf'ij L- It T f WHAT IS JUST FKUN0 A ALLEY? 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By Deutsche Presse Agentur voice and her expressive and moving portrayal of a young girl unhappily in love Audiences at the premiere of the German version of the musical “Miss Saigon" in Stuttgart were enchanted as well when they saw and heard the unknown singing sensation from the Philippines A star was bom Aura Deva Suguitan the petite Filipina who plays the female lead is bound to win many more accolades because the musical is scheduled to run for an entire year Suguitan admits her tongue still gets twisted over the guttural German Then she explains with guileless charm that she in turn decided to drop her last name since most Germans cannot pronounce it Bom in Quezon City a Manila suburb she may have inherited her musical talent from her father who taught her how to play the piano when she was five years old Suguitan wanted to become a pianist but took up singing instead After stints in hotels and on television shows with a pop band she was hired by the Repertory Philippines Theater to play the role of Tuptim in “The King and I” Then she toured with t s she or anyone else has played before She must speak a language made up for the film use her body in ways the audience can’t identify and even bare all for several nude scenes losing 20 pounds so die would look mountain-grow- n “Two months before shooting I got very nervous 1 sort of panicked I really did not know what the hell I was going to do I was I started feeling anxiety-ridde- n doing a lot of research and found there’s nobody who's ever been like Nell so it was helpful to talk about who she isn’t Certain pieces of research were important — stroke victims and different types of strokes and how that would affect your speech and conceptualization “But after all this researching and going to a choreographer and realizing no I can’t do this I just realized you have to be clear You have to be at peace with the fact that you’re going to play a character who is entirely emotionally available who wears her emotions on the outside That really is the most challenging thing I've ever done because I’m a cynic Like a lot of people I've got a lot of layers Yet difficult as it was for Foster to go completely against type the effort had its rewards and not only as the centerpiece of the film “I’m very guarded not guarded but it’s not my personality to be overly emotionally accessible I’m the kind of person who says no no I’m fine I’m OK For me the process of having a job that frees me from my head is very liberating and essential I do tend to live somewhere between my throat and the top of my head It is an extraordinary thing once a year to be able to inhabit the world in a different way “A lot of the explanations for how I came to some of the language and the gestures in the film was just that every time I did it it would make me cry and 1 didn't know why so chances are you're mining very very rich territory” ' Filipina wins accolades around Germany as ‘Miss Saigon’ star STUTTGART Germany — Critics were enraptured by her charming personality the vibrato in her x & V acceptable behavior but she has an inner beauty that transcends the language barrier and attracts the respect of a country doctor played by Liam Neeson The role was an enormous challenge for Foster unlike anything “The Fantasticks” At the beginning of 1994 Suguitan auditioned for and was selected from 600 other hopefuls for the female lead in the German version of “Miss Saigon” It was like a dream come true Beginning in September she rehearsed every day to the point of exhaustion She diligently learned German with the result that she is more fluent in the language than any of her Asian colleagues in the cast Partnering Suguitan on stage as Chris the American GI who abandons his Vietnamese girlfriend is Uwe Kroeger a German Blond and blue-eye- d Kroeger towers over the slight Suguitan by a foot She laughingly recollects being relieved to find that Kroeger wasn’t really the gigantic Hun he appeared to be in a photograph she saw Kroeger 29 who has a powerful voice was an established star before “Miss Saigon” His recent appearance in one of the lead roles of “Elisabeth” a Viennese musical won him many gushing female fans And despite their realistic portrayal of a young couple in love — which set the rumor mill going in Stuttgart’s media — Kroeger and Suguitan aren't the dream pair the press has nude them out to be She is in love — but with someone else — a compatriot who is also in the “Miss Saigon” cast v Witratbridge 1 jo COUH&LOR wAf TO MY "Amto JOt— UNTIL IT KAN Off WITH A YouNOtt m An 4 r iTl 4 n tAta AW&6 SOMEDAY WBIL APPRECIATE HMIA1& HIS OWN PERSONAL TRAINS? J? fr'i chances of only one loser By Phillip Alder Who wrote “A little learning is a dangerous thing”? 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Alexander Pope wrote that a little learning is a dangerous thing He nearly continued: “Play deep or taste not the Pierian spring: NORTH J K 9 6 J4 98765 5 3 EAST Q WEST 10 VI 53 V10 9 6 5 K 10 4 2 S 3 3 J 10 8 6 4 2 Q 9 7 SOUTH A K 7 4 2 VA Q 7 A Q J A K Vulnerable: North-Sout- h There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain and bridge largely sobers us again” Phillip Alder’s new book “Get Smarter at Bridge” is available autographed upon request for $1495 from P6 Box 169 Roslvn Hts NY 0 1894 11577-016- 9 Newspaper Enterprise Assn I: Opening lead: J v |