European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Hollywood shoptalk 5-year weekend later Roberts shot to the top Bob Thomas associated press when Julia Roberts was 16, she saw the movie Becket the Richard Burton Peter o Toole masterpiece about the Stormy relationship be tween King Henry ii and archbishop Thomas Becket her future was instantly determined. That movie had a More profound effect on me than any i had Ever seen she remembers. To see performances like the ones Richard Burton and Peter o Toole deliver it made me want to be that wonderful or at least really try.". " at 23, she has come a Long Way toward achieving that goal faster than even she had the look a languorous voice shadowed by her youth in Smyrna a. It s no wonder that she has climbed into the $1 million per picture category. Pretty woman has no doubt raised the Ante. She scoffs at claims she is an overnight Seisa Tion. It s kind of interesting How they can make five years seem like a Long weekend she said. It was a Road travelled. It was t Quick although it came in a Way i never anticipated. But i also never predicted the outcome of what i was attempting to do. I just delighted in the opportunities to keep doing it. That s where the real excitement comes from every time you get a Job you think you get another Chance to show  both her parents were actors. Her brother Eric Roberts preceded her into films and won an Academy award nomination for runaway train. Julia attended acting classes and endless auditions before Landing her first role at 18 in a crime Story segment. After a few Low budget films she tried out for Mystic pizza. The role called for a portuguese waitress so she dyed her hair Black. She got the role. You can never know. That s the unpredictable the reason All kinds of movies Are made. If there was a formula for the kind of movies people Julia Roberts in a scene from the new thriller Flat liners. Hoped amid the Gaggle of superstars in steel magnolias Only Roberts was nominated for an Academy award next came pretty woman As a Hollywood Hooker to Richard Gere s takeover tycoon the movie astounded everyone with a $160 million Gross and still counting she has a new film out this month in Flat Lin ers Kiefer Sutherland. Kevin Bacon William Eland win and Roberts Are medical students who try to probe the afterlife by stopping their vital signs. It s a Thill or that scared even the actress if jets the he it pumping so Doi Robert s Beauty with her Auburn hair Raphael like face wide Mouth and All knowing yes she is a stunner off screen and on add to would go to see that s the Only kind that would be made i Don t dwell on something you can t figure out " what s in a name would a movie by any other name draw As much attention probably not say the Black activists who have protested what they see As the offensive title of the French Canadian film How to make love to a negro without getting tired. At least two major Black readership newspapers have banned ads for the movie from their pages while some of the nation s general circulation newspapers have agreed Only to publish ads with an abbreviated title How to make love. The title which the film s Black writer says was intended to be satirical also puts Many newspapers in the awkward position of using the abbreviated title in their advertising pages and the whole title in news stories. The controversy has been a publicity Boon to the film s new York based distributor Angelika films. It s a Low budget film based on a 1985 novel about a Black haitian writer in Montreal who tests his sexual prowess on a succession of White women and keeps a diary about the experiences. It has no major stars an unknown director and played in 40 other countries without controversy before beginning its . Release. The film has opened in seven american cities and at each Stop has prompted Public debate. The chief objection to the movie comes from the National association for the advancement of coloured people. In a june 15 letter a act presi Dent Hazel n. Dukes wrote to Angelika films complaining that the title perpetuates the stereotype of people of african descent being consumed by passion to the exclusion of All other  the whole of the film is to make some satire about the Way White women perceive the sexual virility of the Black Man Angelika president Joseph .  responded. If the film were called How to make love to an italian it would not be a problem. People would laugh at  author and screenplay co writer Dany Laferriere said he was very surprised at the uproar about the title since the. Book has been out since 1985. It was meant to be amusing he said adding that in a first draft he called it How to make love to a negro when it s raining and you be c got nothing else to do. David j. Fox los Angeles times films on the Way David Bowie will play a charming compulsive liar and Gambler in go entertainment s the Lin Guine incident a Quirky comedy about holdups lingerie designs and Houdini s magic ring. It also stars Rosanna Arquette although the search continues for the other female Lead. Meanwhile mar Lee Matlin has been cast in a supporting role. Michael St. Gerard who played Elvis Presley on the recent to series and Ned Beatty Star in 3 2-1 productions replicator a Sci i thriller about a Man who can replicate human beings. Luc Campea u produces and George Mihalka directs for the Canadian based production company filming gets under Way this month in Montreal. Orlando  quest studios Lias signed Christopher Atkins to Star in yet another project King s Ransom a Stag he drama about the infiltration of a smuggling and gambling opera Tion Dedee Pfeiffer Michelle s younger sister will Star in Meg giant entertainment s drive a Road picture about two los Angeles commuters Steve Antin and David Warner who think deeply about their lives while stuck in traffic. Pfeiffer plays the object of Antin s obsession. Producer director Jefery Levy intends to film most of the picture which he wrote with c Macleod in Black and White Collin Bernsen Corbin s brother and Elizabeth Maclellan have signed to Star in full Moon entertainment s puppet master ii Charles band s sequel to his killer dolls horror film. Special effects Whiz David Allen makes his directorial debut with this David Fabian screenplay filming begins this week in los Angeles Kirk Honycutt i of Angeles times Page 12 to plus sunday. August 12, 1990