European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1 Magazine "gigi1 gets serious by Elaine Ganley associated press he was a Wail like bul winsome Coquillo whose delicious romantic romps added a touch of whimsy to the 1950s and Early 60s. Tod ii Leslie Caron to Giflio yesteryear is a  who s about to parlay Iho matriarch of fashion Coco Chanel in a to movie she s also sullen a Book of Short Starics called vengeance and a screenplay Sho describes As a parable of War " i suppose i have i no sides to my  Caron said in an inner new bul i m not cute whatever 1 am Caron retains a place in film history a Lime when the musical embodied to spin and Romance of an Bra beginning in 1951 with gone Kelly in an american in Paris through daddy Lon legs with Fred As Larre in 1955 to 1958 s Academy award winning cig. She won he hearts of audiences around the world. But now Mere Itin three decades later at Iho ago of 57, she is remembered mainly As America s French gaming in residence while still a teen Ager Caron was plucked from a Paris bal Tel by Kelly who look her to Hollywood. I was stereotyped after an american in Paris she said. And / think americans a Long Long time ago decided Hal i was culo. A gaming and All Whoso things actually i m n Hwy serious  Caron credits much of her artistic Bent to the legacy my by tier amen can born Mother a dancer whose own dreams Wen  my Mother  me and helped to will my wishes. Bul i think they were the expression of her wishes her Mother s suicide in 1967 stoked her Deli Minalio and kill a feeling of unfinished  As she approached 40, she look up willing and Refuge in pans her Hometown. A word processor sits on a table in her living loom Caron had just resumed irom the Printer wifi the scr pm of inc film she Drolc and plans to direct. Irs a moral tale m s about the incapacity 01 people to get along in other words it s a parable of War on a family Scata she said. The screenplay whose title she refuses to divulge is to be a family affair. She Hopes her children Christopher and actress daughter Jennifer who has Given her a grandchild will participate in the project. Both  Tho children of her second marriage to Peter Hall director of Britain s National theater Caron has been married i rec times she has written whal she Calls a Good part for Horsell. Meaning neither cute nor guileless. I might have been innocent and guileless when 1 was 1b," she said bul my god. The years have passed and i be lived quite a lot of drama. And the Public keeps seeing the same films on the  in 1984. Dout Loday and co. Published a collection of her Short stones vengeance. They  sort of brutal she said. No cruel is the i belter word. 1 do have a i Sharp Eye and a wicked 1 sense of  As a one Lime Star still at i work Caron is finally Able to stretch herself As an i actress in a variety of roles. For the last 10 years i the spectrum of parts i m Ofle Rcd just swings  Ost Rocen a she portrays Chanel in a syndicated to miniseries Caron from Gogl Lococo for the Lall season the Man who lived at the Ritz. Based on the Best Selling novel by , Tolchner it is the Story of an american artist played by Perry King caught in wartime Paris Between the resistance and the nazis last year. Caron played lha submissive Wile of Lenin portrayed by 6en Kingsley in the movie. Tho train which recounted the exiled Lenin s journey Home to Start the russian revolution. Sho also appeared in an episode last year on to s Falcon Crest. Amy living to a scene from crossing Delancy portrays in her fount film a Happy career woman whom her grandmother wants to marry a Pickle store owner played by Peter Legert. Remembering soup for one by Bob Thomas associated Pressa stress Amy Irving recalls the plights of her single life in new York City. I remember when soup for one Camo out she said. I would never buy it because i did t want anyone to know i was going Home  Irving called on that experience Lor her work in the movie crossing Deyancey in which she portrays a single Manhattan career woman in her 30s who is being pushed toward marriage by her concerned grandmother. She s very satisfied wild the work she s doing said the actress analysing her character in Tho Warner Bros release. She has nol been Rette cling on something she was missing her grandmother forces her to Start thinking about it this grandmother who feels a woman could t possibly be Happy unless she was married with children. Not everyone Levels the need to have a husband and children to to fulfilled. 1 certainly do. I Don t think everyone has Lon  children. But i it s something that you think you might want when you gel into your 30s it s now or never said the 35-year-old actress. Irving is a Wile and Mother. Her husband is Sleven Spielberg the film director and they have a Young son Max. Both lather and Mother maintain Busy careers yet they manage to have a family he. We pretty much worked it out that we Don t work at the same time and Man just travels with  Irving said. He s Only 3, so it s not like we re inter luring with his education Lull change in a couple of years when he goes to real school Man Spielberg a birth was a Lamous child. How can his parents assure him a fairly Normal childhood we Reily much try to locus on Colrain realities Irving said. He won l be in Iron of a camera before tuesday october 1 a 1988 he s is. Over my dead body would he be in Irani of a camera Belore he s 18 he is not going to be a child actor. I think he s a smart kid \ Don t really worry about him. He s got a Gigantic heart. Well continue to guide him and keep those values straight Lor him. We can t deny what he s got going in. He s got some physical Homes if Tat  different from other kids. But to does t hang out Wilh Only celebrity kids his friends  irom aft walks of life. Well iry to keep him As warm and Loving As he is pretty much when Steven and i close that door to our Homo we Park our Personas and our careers outside. We gel Down to being just mom and dad " Irving herself had a theatrical upbringing of a different kind. Her lather the Lato Jules Irving was artistic director of san Francisco s american repertory company and later the Lincoln Center repertory theater he Mother is inc actress Priscilla poin Lor. It was a wond Carlut upbringing the Elress recalled. "1 had parents thai i admired and i strove Lor their respect they were in a Field that i Wanold to be in. I grew up watching theater people work in an Ideal Silva lion. I think i Learned by osmosis id do Shakespeare and Shaw and Ibsen. Instead of hiring a Babysitter Molher would say of the three of you  going to watch taming of the shrew tonight the three Zillfo kids would to in Tho second Row probably Asl asleep around act 2.1 Hope to did t hurl my mom s  Irving studied in Het father s theater bul she encountered resentment because she was Jules Irving s daughter. So she took off to train Lor three years at the London Academy of music and dramatic an. Returning to Hollywood where her parents had relocated she began acting in such to series As police woman and the rookies. Her first notice in films came As the sole survivor of Sissy Spacek s rage in Brian Depalma s Carrie. Her other films have included Trie fury voices the Competition with Richard Dreyfuss and the to miniseries the far pavilions the stars and stripes Page 13