European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Serious sensuous Sean Young by Bob Thomas associated press he film world has yet to get a fix on Sean Young whose very name contributes to the confusion. A first glance though eliminates any question about gender. With a slender Leggy figure near perfect face and Long dark hair she is obviously All woman. Such attributes might indicate an empty headed set decoration. That s about All she contributed in such films As Young doctors in love and stripes. Then last year she dazzled reviewers and audiences with her performance As the sensuous Washington mistress caught Between Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman in no Way out. Her Limo scene with Costner was a masterpiece of carnality. Young makes another Strong impression in the boost As the Dutiful wife who accompanies James Woods on a downward slide from affluence to drug Ridden poverty. On a personal basis she has aroused controversy not All of it self induced. During her work on Wall Street Charlie Sheen was so antagonized by her serious attitude on the set that he attached an obscene note to her Back Sheen later admitted that he was on a Bender throughout the filming. And their fellow workers report that there was no love lost Between Woods and Young during the boost this despite their Lovey Dovey appearance on the screen. Young smiled inscrutable and commented Only that she found Woods very she added i think he s pretty intense All the time though i never saw him when he was sleeping. He s intense and rightly so. That s one of the reasons he was so exciting to work with. When he and i would get ready for a scene we had great fun especially the first two acts of the movie where our lives Are All in the boost Woods is a super Salesman of tax shelters Young is the wife who gives up her career to join him in the Sybaris in los Angeles life. When his business goes bust Woods intensifies the cocaine habit he has dabbled in and she joins him. The actress admitted that the wife s actions do not reflect current feminist thinking i think the movie is Sean Young stars in a new movie the going to have a big Impact on women viewers because of How she hands everything Over to her husband. Linda Brown is a person who has everything she s Beautiful capable she s a paralegal Secretary and is supporting them while he s trying to get a break. His dream for Linda is for her to just study dance and be a wife and eventually a Mother. In fact she is very Strong but she decides to invest herself in this Man. But he can t be the Man she wants him to be. And that s destructive to both of it s hard to imagine Young following a husband As blindly As Linda Brown does. Her life has been Well calculated from the age of 13, when she started a daily journal that she has kept Ever since. The daughter of a to news producer and his biographer wife she was born in Louisville ky., and grew up in Ohio. I was intent on becoming successful she recalled. When i was 18,1 read think and grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. I remember Xerox ing the Book and cutting out Little pieces. It says to write out your dream very specifically and in the mornings and at night say it Over again. My dream was t really to become an actress but to become As successful As i could be. I was a trained dancer which i still am today. I did t want to do Ballet anymore it was too hard and i did t get paid much Money. I said i want More Money More Success More than this i quit and became a Model and i got a lot of Money for it. But i found it was an environment that did t utilize my intelligence. So i quit that six months later. My mom said Sean what Are you going to do i said i wanted to act. She had been working with a literary agent at ice the Talent Agency who introduced me to the film a month later she had her first role in James Ivory s Jane Austin in Manhattan. In the ensuing eight years she has had her share of misses baby Blade runner As an android and the Mega Flop Dune i worked four months and ended up in 15 minutes of film. I had a lot of learning to do she remarked. Not just How to act in front of the camera or just How to act. But also How to behave in terms of the system. There s a social system of behaviour within a film. Not Only that each film is different and everybody you work with is different. It never coming soon the ultimate theater experience Tynik Kofinke los Angeles times d like one Low fat Popcorn two Frozen yogurts and an iced cappuccino no this in t an order at one of those upscale gourmet food stores. But if current trends in the motion picture business continue it could be a typical 1990s snack offering at the local movie House. Sound Good then How about la a boy like Rocker seats no wait Concession stands Bone crunching sound systems and the predicted demise of sardine can size Heaters. These Are just some of the so called innovations offered by exhibitors earlier this month at the 1989 National association of theatre owners slowest convention and Trade fair in Las vegas. And they Are All aimed at helping the film Industry lure an aging and More discerning . Population into theater seats and away from their easy chairs easy reach refrigerators and easy Channel changing televisions. We can t keep pretending that the teen agers Are going to fuel the film Industry anymore said Curt Mildner director of marketing for Hussey seating which supplies movie houses. We be got to go after the adults who won t go to a theater unless it offers something More than they can get at just a decade ago the bulk of the movie going audience fell into the 14-24 age Range. And the kids did not seem to mind the Sticky floors saturated fat junk food and bad projection that drove older audiences away in droves. Now however As demographic patterns in the United states change and the postwar baby Boom generation matures into its Middle years the number of teens and Young adults going to the movies is shrinking. And to replace them theater owners Are having to go after the Ove r-40 adults who Are More sophisticated More affluent and As a result a lot More demanding Overall. Also complicating the picture for Cinema operators besides the current headaches caused by Cable and Vars is the coming development of High definition television which promises to make watching movies at Home even More appealing. So How to compete by giving Consumers a total movie going experience from the Box office through the Concession stand in the show and even As they leave that will become an emotional experience so unique it could not possibly be duplicated in their living rooms according to Bruce Taffet a senior vice president at United artists cinemas. While few of the proposed changes at cinemas do not sound All that new when applied to the movie House business they Start to seem downright Radical in the words of Peter Caparis director of theater and prestige accounts for the coca cola co. In Atlanta. They re extremely non traditional for a theater environment because the theater Industry is a very very cautious slow moving Industry he said. But with big National chains continuing to buy out Small mom and pop movie houses according to William Katoian the president of the National association of theatre owners the larger organizations Are More willing to Experiment and move in new directions than the family run theater owners who for so Long embraced junk food Are now hopping on the health bandwagon. After All with older americans watching their cholesterol saturated fat Salt and calorie intake More closely now than Ever before hearings Mounds of cheesy nachos Are off limits. So stuffed in Between the Candy and hot dog display Here Are designer water and fancy Frozen yogurts. Even that old movie House Staple Popcorn is being touted As no cholesterol and Heaters have never put a higher priority on customer Comfort than now. Until this year Only one manufacturer Irwin in grand rapids mich., was producing the hot new Rocker seat for cinemas. At the current slowest however three manufacturers have several models on display. And theater owners seemed to love it judging by the Way they were gleefully bouncing Back and Forth on them like kids on a Carousel horse. We be had a real great response because everyone can always remember the theater they be been in that had a Rocker said Huffey seating s Curt Mildner. And theater owners recognize the fact that people remember and with the same technology As a la a boy easy chair the Rocker seat can make the customer feel at Home. When you put rockers into a theater noted Nick of a Small Chain of Heaters the people notice the next to Comfort theater owners Are looking to give their customers a better movie going experience by upgrading the projection and sound Quality. The theater owners predict that mini Heaters Are going out and old style movie palaces Are coming Back. Going to one of those Little Box Heaters All hunched up in a shopping mall does t constitute the grand experience that older people remember and still like said Jerome Gordon regional executive director of the National association of theatre owners for Virginia Maryland and the District of Columbia. Monday february 27, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 17
