European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Dail Magazine in Hollywood nothing is forever but is making a re entry Dpi Wood in 1947 in the Miracle on 34th Street 18th birthday paddling in 1956 from Tab Hunter. Warner Bros. Columbia with Warren Beatty splendor in the grass 1961 with Elliott Gould Bob & Carol a Ted & Alice 1969. By Guy Flatley new York times Utton eyed about to burst int tears the trembling pigtailed Refu gee tugged at the sleeve of a conspicuously expiring modestly plump Orson  was 31 years ago when Nata lie Wood the 7-year-old daughter of Ai russian set designer and Ballet i dancer began her Hollywood career by stealing scenes from the unsuspecting Welles and a weepy Claudett Colbert in the immorally schmaltzy tomorrow is for  Hollywood nothing is forever. Still Natalie Wood Nee Natasha Gurdin has survived three decades of movie madness with her Beauty and brains intact. Nor has she lost her flair for russian a fact she will soon prove in meteor a tale of interplanetary panic in which she will play a multilingual soviet astrophysics who pools her scientific knowhow with that of american mental heavyweight Sean Connery to save Mankind from fiery annihilation. Wood one of the busiest movie tots of the 1940s, matured splendidly and delivered especially deft performances in rebel without a cause the searchers splendor in the grass and love with the proper stranger. Over the last 10 years however she has shifted her focus to such non cinematic concerns As love and marriage and children appearing in just two movies the Sassy stunningly commercial Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and the notably unpopular Peeper. Earlier this season the diminutive Star made an impressive comeback on television playing Maggie to the Brick of her two time real life husband Robert Wagner in Tennessee Williams s cat on a hot tin roof. If her schedule permits Wood will play the role of the eternally slightly Billie Burke in a warts and All film about Florenz Ziegfield that Mike Frankovich plans to put into production in november. But first comes meteor. The girl i play was engaged to an astronaut but he was killed on re entry said Wood hinting that meteor May have something More politically pertinent on its mind than the customary Sci i i Jinks. Sean is divorced and has two children and we redrawn together. But the main Point of the movie is that the americans and russians must work together to Averta calamity which is about to befall the whole world. One country acting on its own is not  Friday september 16, 1977 another socially significant film which Wood is eager to catch is 9-30-55, about the Impact of James Dean s death on an impressionable College student played by Richard Thomas. It s amazing the fascination Jimmy still holds for Romany people. I m told that there is a play in London now in which one actress plays three women in Jimmy s life Elizabeth Taylor who was with him in giant and me and pier Angeli with whom he had a relationship. By the standards of that time Jimmy seemed eccentric but i did t find him strange at All. He was intense and introverted but he was t into drugs or anything like that. They say he was self destructive but i never thought so. We became very close while we were making rebel without a cause and i spent a great Deal of time with him. We used to go to lunch together on his motorcycle and i never regarded that As  Hollywood has heaped destruction upon vast armies of innocent child performers one of whom is not Natalie Wood. I see nothing harmful about acting or any work thatis fulfilling. I feel Good about my life. Whatever brought me to this Point must have been Good. I Don t remember my childhood unhappily. I was simply doing what. I was  the stars and stripes Page 13