European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Shy Katharine Hepburn by Dolores Barclay associated press writer age has not rounded the nor time withered the she is Bony and her Bryn mawr voice May quaver a but her vip Erish wit is i think in very irritating to some peo it fascinates because in so Sweet real Katharine Hepburn said with a Bright in basically As my father once children who Are very shy Are afraid they wont be the Bride or the i Hope he was she has seen 75 Winters and frets about the tulips and hyacinths in her rails at Youthful supports abortion and champions euthanasia for the and though reluctant to have interviewers penetrate her she recently discussed her her family and her values at her Turtle Bay my values come from my Mother and they were real left of Center she they were her and others i guess life and the people i by the time youre youre a pretty solid piece of Hepburn latest movie is Grace an Odd Story about an old woman who teams with a professional hit Man Nick Nolte to provide a service for old people who would rather die than i think theres sort of a terrible fear of death in this and i just dont think you should fear some thing that is absolutely she said if you think youre in the Way and youre getting nothing out of life and certainly nobody wants and youre using up what Little Money you have and you feel right to i dont see Why you cant do i think its everyone own youve been tossed out of your youre Blind and totally dependent on that and the other i think its common Ive been extremely Ive got Money and i can decide to work or not Ive been terribly Lucky All my she said her Only real difficulty these Days was this fool ankle that gives her a Tad of trouble from time to it turned completely around when she ran her car into a Telephone pole about 1 years ago while admiring an old doctors fused i have to make this foot work As Well As it can she and if it defeats me i have to Ive had Many years of very Good use of Call it common or perhaps Yankee which she inherited from her her Thomas Norval was a urologist who campaigned for Public awareness of venereal Dis her Katharine was a suffragist and a crusader in the birth control i think i was Lucky in that i was brought up at a time when my father and Mother were ridiculed and snubbed in a very Republican Community for their beliefs and it never made them very she their she freed her from i want afraid to pay the Price of saying what i i want she grew up the second of six children with a belief that anything was possible for i never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior the Hepburn House was often filled with the social reformers of the including British suffragist emmeline Young Katharine was a willing participant in the suffrage i used to carry a ballot Box with my who was 5foot10 and very she carried a sign idiots and Crimi nals vote she laughed in that voice Tallulah Bankhead once likened to Nickels dropping in a Slot then she lightly touched a freckled hand to a face worn dry by wind and Sun and grew the poor the ladies have a Tough its Tough to be a she said with a for the Academy award winning it was never Tough being a at Bryn mawr col lege with its High academic standards and mannered she survived on her she almost flunked out but buckled Down to work so she could act in school after she plunged into the doing Stock and finally Landing a bit role in a Broadway these then came a Litany of firings until she was rehired in the warriors she wore an abbreviated tunic in her role As the am Redgrave acting eclipsed by politics Azon and captivated by the Leggy in gave her a screen her first a Bill of with John was a her next was a the morning glory in won her first Oscar three others came in 1968 and for guess who coming to the lion in Winter and on Golden then followed years of being Box office she Ive been the joke of new York City and deservedly but i was at an age then that for some reason it really didst depress me too she Rose from the Hollywood graveyard in 1940 with the Philadelphia playwright Philip Barry wrote it for her and it became a smash on i bought the movie they wanted to buy it for All of my but i already owned very she then i stayed at metro Mem and did All those pictures with Ive done things for the honest reason that i like you cant do things just to be you have to do things that affect Spencer Tracy was her closest Friend for 27 she was linked romantically with billionaire industrialist Howard Hughes and producer Leland Hayward and was married once in 1928 to Philadelphia socialite Lud Low Ogden they divorced in Hepburn spends much of her time on the Connecticut Shore with her in the old family she looks for the right movie plays Tennis and its terribly difficult to find interesting she and a poor old thing dying in a rest Home is not a terribly interesting i think its just if she didst make movies i honestly dont know what id she in not an intellectual and in not a student of the and in not insane about the but i do like i think what i do is the theater is i think Selling yourself is terrifying you cant assume that youre i saw someone on the Street the other Day and she called to me youre Shorter than i i called in up photo Katharine Hepburn really by Dolores Barclay associated press Vanessa Redgrave courting up photo she is very tall 6 feet with head held far too big to Ever become a she was Vanessa the activist British actress who courts Rose to her full joined the Redgrave theatrical dynasty and became something of a she was nominated for an Academy award this year for Best actress for portraying a 19thcentury feminist in the won the supporting actress Oscar in 1977 for Julia and Drew raves Over the years for performances in such films As and but her artistic achievements seem to be eclipsed by her personal As she discussed her latest a Public television production of three sovereigns for it was hard to avoid talking about her support of the Palestine liberation organization and Britain workers revolutionary party and her lawsuit against the Boston symphony she sued the orchestra for million after it cancelled six 1982 performances of Stravinsky oedipus which she was to Redgrave said she had been blacklisted for political reasons because of her support of the she said she could not obtain work for 14 months after the last a jury awarded the 48yearold actress for harm to her professional career and for the broken a Federal judge overturned the award in the ruling has put every civil right in she her eyes Are the palest like a tranquil but they soon Cloud Over As she discusses her i always believed that the artist had a special responsibility being Able to communicate the she said in an interview at her agents you cant do that if you Arent fighting for so its a Tough her professionalism transcends any pain she might experience from the Public hostility that often greets she turned in a shattering by emotional performance As fania a jewish survivor of in the highly acclaimed 1980 to playing for Fenelon had called the casting of Redgrave a moral wrong and some jewish groups had called for a Boycott of the my politics have never worked against my career in terms of the general Public or the majority of my col leagues because i think All of us respond immediately to the human she its too missing from too Many places for us not to be on the Lookout for Redgrave traces her acting roots Back to her grandma Roy her sir who died in was a British tragedian in the tradition of sir John Gielgud and lord her also brother Corin made his film debut in a Man for All and sister Lynn established herself As a gifted comedian with Georgy i didst have very big dreams at All because i was told by people i respected that i  expect to get very far because of my Redgrave All i wanted to do was get she found her Way to Stratfor Donavon where she walked on in Othello with Paul walked on in Well that ends Well with Dame Edith Evans and finally played Helena in a Midsummer night it was extraordinary to be Able to watch those actors she the legacy of British actors always lives my daughters generation stands on the shoulders of my my generation stands on the shoulders of my fathers which is Why we enjoy seeing their she temporarily left the stage to do two Farouk mov ies in the Morgan and which encouraged a screen in the Redgrave went without makeup in order to be True to her in three sovereigns for in which she portrays a woman accused of her look is equally we decided to go for a Flaky texture and chapped skin and the collapsed Eye that could have been the result of a stroke at one she Sarah watches her family destroyed by hysterical accusations and the irrational fears of the Witch Hunters of she it is sometimes out of very negative experiences that you learn the said Mesinas cultural revolution1 by Kerin Hope associated press Melina the fiery Star of never on has brought the same exuberant Energy that marked her film career to her Job As Greece first socialist culture in the past years she has campaigned on four continents to bring the priceless Elgin marbles Home to launched an ambitious scheme to make Athens the first cultural capital of the european economic Community and drafted a Law Banning cultural life in Greece was like a House without foundations and without a roof when we came there was so much work to be Mercouri told a group of foreign reporters recently in a parliamentary Deputy for Premier Andreas Papan Reous panhellenic socialist movement Mer Couri is the first greek woman to hold an influential Cabinet since she has represented a seedy District in Athens port of the setting for her film role As a Golden hearted prostitute in never in Mercouri has transformed the once staid culture bringing in poets and screen writers As Avante Garde paintings decorate the cluttered offices where ministry advisers in jeans pore Over programs for cultural centers on Remote Aegean while Mercouri has her most greek writers and filmmakers seem to agree that the artistic climate has shown a marked improvement since she took Melina is one of Shes receptive to creative ideas and she puts everything into the even if some projects Haven worked said writer Kay the blonde 62yearold who comes from an old athenian political has Learned to Delegate and to take advice often from her French american film director Jules friends her crusade to bring Back the Elgin ancient statuary removed from the acropolis temples in the Early 19th Century by a British has attracted support from around the Britain has rejected a formal request from Mercouri to give Back the now in the British the government claims they were legally acquired by lord a British ambassador to ottoman which then ruled we have to be i feel sure Well get them Back the Issue is a Small Thorn which Doest disturb our other cultural relations with Brit she top musical and theater groups from West Germany and the United states will take part in this Summers opening Athens six months As the first cultural capital of the 10nation after comes Florence and then were managing to bring culture into the both internationally and at its a matter of peo Ples mentality she last month she also announced a 100 million Drach Mas plan for a permanent exhibit in Piraeus that she said will make Piraeus rate with the richest cultural centers in More than objects illustrating Greece seafaring tradition from the Stone age to the 19th Century will go on display in june at the ports passenger Mercouri has pushed into parliament a draft Law that will guarantee state Aid for Greece struggling film in the expected to pass by bans censorship and ensures that Box office taxes at greek cinemas will be recycled to produce new it will also set up a company to promote greek films Mercouri has set up More than cultural libraries and Cinema clubs throughout Mainland Greece and the Small theater groups now get govern ment assistance to mount shows in isolated we have to make cultural activity available to people outside Athens and bring it alive for As part of improving the Quality of Greece int just a vast museum of ancient Michael a senior adviser to but archaeologists in the government Antiquity service complain their role has been eroded since Mercouri permitted some of their responsibilities to be transferred to the environment ministry last the archaeologists can no longer decide which Sites should be fully excavated before construction workers move that decision Means unique ancient treasures May never be scientifically a spokesman for the Union of greek archaeologists and composer Mikis famed for his score for Zorba the recently lashed out at the socialist government for surveying Quantity not their authoritarian attitude undermines individual dreams and and Theodorakis the socialists Are making Greece a cultural a photo Page 14 the stars and stripes july Melina Mercouri so 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