European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Anjelica Huston Steps out of the shadows by Paul Rosenfield los Angeles times n the floor in her bedroom in Hollywood. Anjelica Huston was posing Lor a still camera ii was the kind of thing movie stars did routinely in the 50s one thinks of Kim Novak or Natalie Wood. But Huston who prefers not to meet the press at Home was really giving herself to the Lens Huston s legs Are longer than your legs no matter How tall you Are she was surrounded in this bedroom by irony the drive past the Gale to the House is Steep beyond imagining and then there is no View atop Benedict Canyon if anybody should have a View of Hollywood right now. It s Angelica Huston i hate  the actress said provocatively the real estate people can t believe that you Don t want a View ii took me two years to find this House " As someone entered the bedroom she craned her neck away from the camera and said. Last week. I killed two people " the photographer stopped for a moment and the words hovered in the air it s the kind of throwaway line Maerose prizzi would have dropped or Angelica Huston people and critics say that she is doing her Best Garbo in Paul mmmmml1 Mazursky s enemies. A love Story and her Best hysteric in Woody Allen s crimes and misdemeanours. For the Mazursky picture she won the National society of film critics Best supporting actress award and was runner up to my Lett Pool s Brenda Fricker in the same category with the l a. Critics. At 35, she has arrived an Industry Star on the Brink of Banka bitty finally having emerged from the shadows of two powerful men _ her lather. John Huston and her longtime  Nicholson we find that Anjelica Huston casts a pretty Long Shadow herself and in is not All legs Huston who made her screen debut at 16 but did not Bloom on the screen until 30, has exercised her fresh Banka bitty by taking on a series of off beat roles for some of film s most interesting directors and kept Busy Lour movies in a year including the just completed critters with Britain s Stephen Frears on the last Day of shooting. I killed two people Huston repeated As she and the photographer went Back to work i play a con person who does numbers at the race track one person i murdered and one was in self defense " her mind seems to be moving As fast As her career one thought veering into another. That night i went to the wrap parly and danced wildly until 5 o clock in the morning then i went to my ranch in Mexico and cooked chickens and turkeys for Christmas then on boxing Day. I  she picked herself up off the floor and moved to her King size bed. Which she occupied like an old fashioned movie goddess. In t she More like an updated Dietrich than Garbo asked Broadway casting director Andy Zerman. I mean Dietrich without the musical numbers certainly there s  and attention As the neurotic stewardess in crimes and misdemeanours she has masochists everywhere identifying like crazy. As Dolores the lonely mistress who smokes alone and drinks alone and understands pills and can t stand it anymore she struck a nerve. We All have that Grain of obsession if we let the ribbon out we All want to hang up on somebody at one Lime or another she a d knowingly lighting the first in a Long line of cigarettes. She s a Huston All right but she s not a Dolores she says still she suffered last year what she Calls a Public humiliation when Nic Ion s name was linked to a woman who modelled for Playboy and indiscreet details of the actor s sexual habits were disclosed. It to was embarrassing. Huston and Nicholson Jack and Anjelica were an icon couple of the 70s and 80s were they or weren t they everyone wanted to know just lovers or just friends when you say the name Nicholson now you get a Long pause and then a fragment of an answer. After 16 years she said there in t an aspect of my life he has t affected " she is smart enough to know if Only from her years with Nicholson the advantage of being discovered later when you Are ready. For one thing As Nicholson once put it in lasts  and who would know better Nicholson after All worked in a biker movies for 11 years until easy rider made him an overnight sensation " and irom the moment he could he called his shots and chose his directors. Irom Michelangelo Antomonie to Mike Nichols. Which leads one to ask Huston about the very dependent Dolores in crimes and misdemeanours one of Woody Allen s most vivid characters Ever How much was Woody and How much was Anjelica it s All  she said running her hands through her Cleopatra Cut Black mane and laughing. I Hope to god i Haven t taken things to the Levels Dolores did i be never blackmailed or threatened but under rejection people do very crazy  indeed in moments the actress seems terribly fragile we All know about the waiting around Lor them to Call and when they do Call attacking them we had no character discussion at All. It was All there in the  Huston is the kind of classic Beauty who s meant to be seen and not just on screen. She says that like her father her looks depend on mood and  but what about Beauty i bought it when i was told Beauty came from inside. When you become older it s an act of Faith to believe Beauty is inside. Do i like my looks he Mem i d say i m one of those people who s handsome rather than Beautiful. I have the same duality my father had. He could look wrinkled or child like within hours feature Wise i m More like him than her. I think i m like a tall  Huston suddenly remembered modelling agent Eileen Ford telling her Early on to have her nose done she laughed softly sell consciously. If i d done the nose then something else would have been wrong i would have needed Bee stung  she knows Hollywood is a very unforgiving town in terms of looks. I never want to be one of those women with old looking hands and pulled in laces. It s like silicone for breast enlargements. So they look sexier with silicone but it lessens sensitivity. By deadening nerves it s a breast with parts Cut  at that Point this Huston sat up straight startled Al her realization. So they re bigger but you feel less. You Don t get the full follow up. In t that an Odd dichotomy i Roseanne s by Anne Taylor Fleming new York times s the ubiquitous Roseanne Barr in danger of losing it is she about to carry her Tough Guy Persona a Little Loo far and thereby alienate the audience she once charmed with her impudent bulk and nasally quipo7 True her weekly sitcom Omi hangs up there at the top of the television ratings often in the no 1 spot her Book Roseanne my Lite As a woman also is on Best seller lists around the country but her first movie she Devil was an out and out bomb grossing just Over $12.8 million in its first 38 Days of release and sinking fast. There s her constant appearance at the nation s supermarket counters her face graced the covers almost weekly of one tabloid or another which trumpeted her on again Oil again wedding Wilh comedian Tom Arnold last month they made it official then there Are the tales of the professional fisticuffs in which Barr reputedly got rid of the show s original executive producer and has angled to do the same to his replacement. It s Asil the Devil himself or herself had taken Over Barr s Public relations Campaign. If even half of what these papers print is even half right or a fraction right Barr seems on the precipice of self destruction. I m kind of surprised the ratings have held  said Bill Bruns Hollywood Bureau chief Lor . Guide. There s a line line. It seems to me she s passed it and that so Many people Are going to be turned off by her antics we so called experts Are waiting to see " we re All waiting there s something about Barr that hits a real visceral nerve with people certainly with men. Who Are often the targets of her tartness but with women too. I Don t want to pretend prescience but right from the beginning when i first saw her show i had reservations about her about her Macho moxie and right irom the beginning i worried about it. Was i out of touch with the real world was i just squeamish a Goody two shoes suburban feminist who was used to her icons being Chic and sugar coated instead of this gum chewing male bashing or at least male baiting working class mama with a bad Mouth could t i get Down with her i could t. And i left sufficiently bad about it that when Barr s name would come up in conversation. I backed out of the conversation. She was a conscience Call for me and maybe for a lot of other women. 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