European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Faye Dunaway stars with Klaus Maria Branda Erin burning secret a tale of seduction and betrayal in Austria. Dreaded Dunaway drops the Tempo in newest film Vest Ron pictures by Hillel Italie associated press he won an Academy award for playing the ruthless television executive in network and gave unforgettable performances As Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde and Evelyn Mulray in Chinatown. Faye Dunaway s exhaustive preparation and demand for perfection have won her admiration but have also caused tension on the set. Jack Nicholson her co Star in Chinatown nicknamed her the dreaded but for her latest movie burning secret Dunaway drops the Tempo. She plays Sonya Tuchman the wife of an american Diplomat stationed in Vienna in 1919. The film has a quiet somber feel and Dunaway plays her part with the same sense of understatement. You just have to keep it balanced inside the actress said. It s a part of acting. Your business is the inner character and the rest will take care of itself. This particular character was gently restrained. She was very much in the period of 1919, very much As it should be. She was t like Diane in burning secret also stars Klaus Maria Brandauer mephisto and out of Africa As the enigmatic Baron who romances Sonya and features 12-year-old David Eberts in his film debut As Sonya s sensitive son. What Klaus does is what the Best actors do Dunaway said. He s a link. He always goes against the Grain. He s also a very great Dunaway who has played opposite such seasoned thespians As Warren Beatty and William Holden relished the Opportunity to work with an untrained actor such As Eberts. Children have a wonderful thing they Don t have to Battle against artifice Dunaway said. David is completely genuine which is what All of us grownups burning secret director Andrew Birkin left with David Eberts. Vest Ron pictures want to achieve. He was t like a child actor David did t have that artifice. He had a wonderful kind of innocence and reality about acting Dunaway noted is really a Way of staying childlike. A Chance to remain open and adventurous. I do know that acting is play. When you actually Are doing it it s play. Let s do this now and then this. It s All very spontaneous she said. That s very enjoyable because the rest of life is far More Dorothy Faye Dunaway was born in 1941 in Bascom Fla. She attended Florida state University and the University of Florida before transferring to Boston University s school of Fine and applied arts. In 1962, her senior year at Boston University Dunaway was chosen to play a Lead role in Arthur Miller s the Crucible and was subsequently recommended for admission to an actor s training program at the new Lincoln Center repertory theater. Her time at the Lincoln Center program led to roles on Broadway in a Man for All seasons and after the fall Dunaway s performance As the unhappy wife in the american place theater production of Hogan s Goat caught the attention of Talent agent Joyce Selznick and in 1967 led to her film debut in the happening. Neither that film nor hurry Sundown made much of an Impact but later that year Dunaway earned her first Academy award nomination when she starred with Beatty and Gene Hackman in Bonnie and Clyde an enormous critical and commercial Success. I think i be been Lucky for Many of the roles i be played Dunaway recalled but Bonnie was definitely the biggest break for me. It was the closest to me. I Felt kind of Home she went on to earn another Oscar nomination in 1974 for Chinatown and was named Best actress in 1976 for network. Still Fame has had its drawbacks As Well she has divorced twice from Rock Star Peter Wolf and photographer Terry o Neill and her overwrought performance As Joan Crawford in the 1981 cult classic mommie Dearest left moviegoers wondering whether the real Faye Dunaway came armed with wire hangers. I think it was a mistake to do she admitted. The intentions Are there we wanted to make the portrait of a tortured woman. It s an interesting Challenge but i Don t think it can be done. People think that you re like that the Persona that s created by the roles you play Are identified with you. You have to be Dunaway s career made few gains after mommie Dearest until 1987, when she won raves As the broken Down alcoholic Wanda in barfly. I was absolutely searching for a part that would make people forget mommie Dearest. Barfly was a gift from Mickie Rourke her co Stara gift from god. I was de glamorized demystified. The vulnerability in barfly is close to me but not the Dunaway s admirers have included Crawford John Huston who played her father in Chinatown and Debra Winger who cited her performance in mommie Dearest As a major influence on her own career. Dunaway expressed great respect for Patricia Neal but stressed that her acting style is very much her own. You can Only be yourself you can t emulate other wednesday february 1989 the stars and stripes Page 17
