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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, July 4, 1986

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Anjelyca Huston won an Academy award for her role in her lather s him or Loti s  saddling the Thunderbolt of Success 8y augean Harmetz new York times hat happens when dreams come True More to the Point what happens when riches you never dared to dream Aboul Are accidentally poured info your Lap lame adulation revenge on the world Money an Academy award Linda Hunt Daniel Day Lewis. Bronson Inchol Oprah Winfrey and Anjelica Huston were virtually unknown to movie audiences when a single memorable performance Brough them celebrity overnight. An of of i Broadway actress two struggling Young character actors a talk show Host and a has been they were All metaphorically at least struck by lightning they had the courage and the skill to Saddle the Thunderbolt but hey could nol have planned for the Lucky Accident thai made their sudden lame possible How do they account for their Lucky break and How do they Teel looking Back Al it now Success it a potent thing. It disrupts your image of yourself says Hunt. I was so associated with the struggle of my work collecting unemployment How difficult it was to be opportunities to act. I m Sliff adjusting More than three years altar the year of living dangerously came out and two years alter i won the  barely 4 feel 9 inches tall. Hunt was sure her life would be a constant rhythm Wilh no leaps then she Loots fhe Chance of playing Billy Kwan a male Dwarf in the year of living dangerously and life would never be a constant rhythm again. I bought my Cousin a Mink coat last week says Oprah Winfrey. It s hard for me to remember drawing water irom the Well every morning and playing with Corncob  Winfrey a Bulky 200-Pound Black woman had a comfortable life As a talk show Host in Chicago when Quincy Jones came to town Lor six hours and out of boredom hipped the dial on the television sol in his hotel room to he Oprah Winfrey show. She had never acted before but Jones co producer of the color purple chose her for the crucial role of the defiant Sophia the Rolo brought her an Academy award nomination and a starring role in a forthcoming screen adaptation of Richard Wright s novel native sort. And her television show will be seen across the country next All it used to be a Choice Belicen working and not working. Now the choices Are More Dilt cult says Day Lewis. A room with a View in which Day Lewis plays he Insull Crable prig Cecil Vyse and my Beautiful Laun Stelte with his performance As a London bully boy who wants something More from me than bashing pakistanis were finished nearly a year Parl. They opened in now York the same Day allowing movie critics to Marvel publicly at his Range my Beautiful a Andrelle was never supposed to open in new York at an. Ii was made Lor British television. There was a Little part in Beverly Hilf cop Aboul six lines a fruity Little Guy says Inchol. And the casting agent said can you improvise something i almost did t do it. I wailed to audition for two hours and by then i was so Zany i went ahead and did  a poof. Clever boy who had won a scholarship to Yale Inchol foresaw a plodding future As an actor. Even in College he was a character actor playing crisis Ridden men in their 40s. I decided when i was 35 i d Start to gel film roles playing the thinning hair sensitive types. Until then i d work in regional  that tiny role As Serge a pretentious Art dealer with an indecipherable accent made him a celebrity at 24. Sooner or later there will be tears before bedtime warns Huston. Within a week of having won he Oscar Lor prizzi s Honor i found myself doing a screen lest at Warner Brothers. I did t get the part t was More upset by it because i had won. It made me feel not having to prove Mysell any More was an illusion at  at the age of 15, Huston was Given the Chance to be a movie Star when he father John Huston starred her in his movie a walk with love and death Aboul two teen agers walking across Europe in the 14th Century. With a sullen reluctant performance she did her Best to throw the Opportunity away Al 32. Struggling toward what she had carelessly discarded 17 years earlier she was waving knives and cavorting in skin tight leather briefs in some Distant Century in the ice pita Les her father wanted to Reward the producer of that my Lor giving her the part so he dug Oul some galleys of a Book that had been tying on his desk for iwo years prize s Honor except for Huston who grew up using her father s and Grandfather Waller Huston s oscars As toys the actors Felt themselves overwhelmed try the sudden Success. I think Aboul it at the time says Hunt in that sinking dark voice that seems to measure mountains with a syllable. Tho world runs on Siar names. I asked Wally Shawn Iii had t won the Academy award would you have written aunt Dan and Lemon or me " it s like someone has put me on a mailing list for Thermal underwear says 28-year old Day Lewis describing the feeling of being badgered by strangers. I m trying to be realistic. By 1987. They May have somebody else s address. I m quite capable of living on very Lille. I Don t have a car t live in London in a very Nice Flat that does t belong to me Tho Only thing i would hate to do without is privacy privacy is the first thing lost when Newsweek describes you As one of the Lew people alive who could steal a scene from Eddie Murphy " says Inchol last year after Beverly Hills cop came out people were leaning Oul of cars and screaming at me. I took a Short vacation. I went to Greece for live Daya. I stayed two months in a Hostel at the top of a Mountain. I realised j was terrified to come Back. I Don t answer the phone i have no social life at All. The minute i m nol working i jump in my car and go away " the hardest part is that people assume you be changed says Winfrey. They think you re condescending nor caring an arrogant snob. They know if they were famous for three minutes Fiey would lose their minds and they assume i be lost mine. The least thing and they say you re Loo Good Lor me now " was it Luck thai made Jones twist the television dial Winfrey shakes her head. I act As if everything depends upon me and Pray As if everything depends upon god. Success in your work is not Luck if the door opens and you re not ready to go through .,." her words Echo Day Lewis. Acting he says like Peker requires a great Deal of skill but you win or lose on How you apply Good  Page 14 the stars and stripes a Altani Pogh Tea Oprah Winfrey in to color  a Chicago talk Thow Host before mattock the him Winfrey did t expect a movie earner. Friday jul  
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