European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse A a. 2oth Century Fox Madeleine Stowe on target in bad stages her outward act on the scree by Luaine Lee so Apps Howard a. O = a a stress Madeleine Stowe was always too shy to get up on the stage. But that did no to prevent her from cutting classes at the uni a a varsity of Southern California so that she could gaze at the actors at a Small theater in los Angeles. 411 started taking acting classes but i participate a she says. A i was really. An observer too afraid to get on stage. These people seemed so unbelievably exotic. I thought this was the life because these people were so much More expressive than anybody. Id Ever a. A a a in spite of her striking dark haired Beauty and a string of memorable movies like the last of the Mohi cans blink unlawful entry and her latest bad girls Stowe remains shy. Stowe a los Angeles native and her actor husband Brian Benben dream on recently relocated to a ranch near Fredericksburg Texas. It was no risk she says insisting that she was never part of the Hollywood crowd anyway. Benben agreed to move before he had any idea that he would soon be building fences and castrating calves a she laughs. A i said a in be got to find a Way to work this and he said a whatever you want to though Stowe can illuminate the screen with her Olive Black eyes she never intended to be an actress. She was discovered by fabled agent Meyer Mishkin by Chance an encounter that puts the old Lan Turner soda Fountain Story to shame. A i had a Job As a hostess in a restaurant and was fired very quickly. They said i was too spaced out. I went immediately to the theater where Mishkin pulled me aside and asked if i was interested in Mishkin invited her to do a scene for him. A i was really dreadful a she recalls a and i did terrible work for Many years. Terrible. But something what happened was that acting helped this shy woman reveal some of the feelings she had hidden from the world. A. 20th Century Fox Andie Macdow cil plays Eileen in bad girls Andie Macdowell a style fits the decade by Betsy Pickle Knoxville Tenn news Sentinel die Macdow cil is a woman of the �?T90s. Just pick the Century. V in bad girls she a a straight shooting woman of the 1890s, a Sweet talking try ing to be re tired prostitute who hangs Tough with friends Madeleine Stowe Mary Stuart Masterson and Drew Barrymore when townspeople outlaws and Pinkerton men try to exploit or exterminate them. A a. A a. V in four weddings and a funeral also playing on screens across the United. Slates she is a sexually liberated career woman of the 1990s, an american living abroad carrying on an intermittent affair with personable englishman Hugh Grant. In real life she is a Cross Between the 19th and 20th centuries living on a ranch in Montana with husband Paul Qualley son Justin daughter Rainey and 10 horses and holding Down a movie career that lets her move from comedy to drama to action with seeming unconcern for her image As one of the worlds most Beautiful women. Macdowell has been ready for a role like the one in bad Girts for a Long time a playing cowgirl was part of childhood and now she does it for real in Montana. A a Girlfriend of mine had two Black ponies that. Were really tame a says the 36-year-old, recalling her growing up years in Gaffney . A i used to run up behind the ponies and put my hands on the Butts and jump on Mem from behind. A a we used to ride those ponies bareback and jump on them run through barns and pretend like we were making escapes and stuff like now that she lives on a ranch she seven More at a bad girls review on Page 12 Home on the Range. A i still play. Cowboys a Macro a Well says a we Haven to gotten cattle yet. But i have helped other people when they do roundups and stuff like talking to reporters at la mansion hotel in san Antonio about 120 Miles East of Brackettville Texas where most of bad girls was shot Macdow cil looks less cowgirl than Earth Mother. Clad in a Loose Woven natural coloured sweater Over a beige silk skirt she looks comfortable but a bit tired she a expecting her third child in october bad girls got off to a Rocky Start. Original director. Tamra Davis was fired after three weeks of filming and Jonathan Kaplan the accused was hired to replace her. Producer Lynda Obst whose credits in elude sleepless in Seattle and the Fisher King also. Was brought in. The mov Elarid equivalent of changing horses in Midstream Wasny tas disruptive As it might seem Macdowell says a it was very organized the Way. They did it a she says. A a we had plenty of the film started out As a drama. A it became much More of an action film a says Macdow cil. A that was scary. It All was Fine in the end. Four weddings director Mike Newell id called him to Tel him that i was kind of freaking out Over this and he was like a Well Jonathan Kaplanis a wonderful director i worry about anything a and so i just kind of kept repeating that to myself that everything was going to be All right and had to \. Macdowell had to Icahn a new style of Riding but getting into the action Wasny to a problem. The Wrath or was however. 1. A we froze to death one night a she says. A that night i had on scuba clothes i had so Many layers on i was like the walking marshmallow Man i could barely move. I think they had to heave me onto the horse. I can to stand to be cold and it was Macro Weill a film breakthrough a sex lies and videotape a was shot in a much warmer location new Orleans. That 1989 film gave the onetime Calvin Klein jeans and la Oreal Model a cachet that her previous screen efforts a her 1984 debut in Gryst pc the legend of Tarzan a Brief appearance in of. Elmo s fire and a Lead in the unseen so crets of the Sahara Hadnot begun to presage her Superb performance As a bored Young housewife in Steven Soderbergh a sex lies could have been a Burden instead of a Blessing had she let it. A a lot of the things that i got right after sex lick and videotape were just the same Type of person Quot she says. A i tried to find things that were different a bad girls offered her a. Chance to let people see a new Side of herself. A because of the Strong Success of sex lies and videotape people kept thinking that i was just this Sweet Tittle innocent virginal quiet person a a she says. A so this was a Chance for me to do something completely the opposite a be loud and not the nicest girl in the the real Macdowell seems to fit somewhere be. Tween those extremes. On a recent visit to the late show with David Letterman she gamely tried to rope a camera and she laughed off rumours that she and her family wander around nude All the time. She does t equate nudity with sensuality and she does t think movies should either. A i think that four weddings and a funeral is a Good example of a movie that has a lot of intelligence where the woman is Strong and says exactly what son her mind and there a no nudity a she says. A and it was definitely sensual. I like that kind of Story. Give me Katharine Hepburn anytime. May 8, 1994 sunday Page 11
