European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 27, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse A. .-.-. -. Actress Brooke Shields lets it out in real life while watching Tennis Star Andre Agassi who Aims a backhand kiss her Way during the . Open in september. Brooke Shields and her love match with Andre Agassi by Georgia Dullea new York times he morning after her opening night in Pitts Burgh in the Road show of grease finds Brooke Shields at her hotel suite in Bare feet which thanks to bunion surgery Are As Lovely As the rest of her. I had to have both feet broken she says but now i can Wear High heels without three along with her born again feet the 29-year-old actress has a born again Christian Boyfriend the world class Tennis player Andre Agassi 24. He was a perfect Brick during her Long convalescence last Winter it seems even though he himself was recovering from wrist surgery. Their Romance began by fax that s a 90s thing she say Sand their first big kiss for the cameras came this past september seconds after he won the . Open. She did t Send him roses the Way barbra Strei Sand did last year at Wimbledon. Instead she gave a press conference. That s another 90s thing if the love match has Given a bit of Buzz to her Ca reer More of the same is forthcoming from Broadway where she is scheduled to make her debut in grease a revival of the Long running 1972 musical about the 1950s, tuesday. Stepping into Rosie o Donnell s Ballet shoes Shields plays Betty Rizzo Leader of the Pink ladies the fast girls sorority at Rydell High. She dances with a Neon Hula hoop and pokes fun at the Nice girl in the show singing look at me i m Sandra Dee Lousy with in the minds of Many Brooke Shields is a name from the past remembered As the 12-year-old prostitute in the Louis Mallet it pretty baby. Or the 15 year old jeans Model who let nothing come Between me and my or the 19-year-old undergrad uate who majored in French literature at Princeton and wrote an Earnest How to for her fellow virgins. A groan look she says Tevelly this is something i wrote in a Book for other Young women telling them not to succumb to peer pressure and it s been blown out of she does not mention that her Mother and manager ten Shields used to boast about Brooke s virginity. These stories started coming out of nowhere. They said there was a contract. I was t allowed to lose my virginity. That was 10 years ago and people Are still notice though she is still not telling. Read my next Book she says. In another room her assistant is monitoring esp for news of the Paris open. Andre s playing Todd Martin Shields says glancing at her watch and add ing six hours. Agassi won that match on his Way to the title in the Hall her dog a maltese named donuts fluffs about in a Pink Choker an honorary Pink lady. Last night donuts had a backstage reunion with Babbie a Matching maltese owned by Teri Shields. The dogs had fun. Strains were evident Between Mother and daughter though As an animated Teri dressed for the opening in an outfit not unlike a grease tume arrived to congratulate Brooke. The next Day finds Brooke seated at a table in the dining room of her hotel suite picking at a plate of steamed spinach and struggling to do what she has done All her life which is damage control. I grew up in an alcoholic household she begins in a Small voice. I m the caretaker who wants to make everything better and you can just do that for so Long or so i be been Shields whose parents divorced before her first birthday has spoken publicly before about her re actions to her Mother s drinking. When she was 13 she threatened to leave her Mother and live with her father unless her Mother entered a treatment program. She did but that was awhile ago she recalls Star ing across the room. On the Buffet is a paperback Book by Melody beat tie codependency How to Stop controlling others and Start caring for yourself. She has yet to read it but after some time in psychotherapy she says she knows something of its message. Some of the insight came while she was recovering from foot surgery a free fall time for me in which there was no Structure other than she rented movies and read books everything from the Bible and Angel accounts to Anne Rice and . but mostly she thought about her future and How since her Days As the Ivory Snow baby her Mother had controlled her careers in modelling and film and to some extent her personal life. I found myself wanting to take the wheel she re Calls. I be been in the passenger s seat on a lot of bumpy rides and i be Hung in there but i be never been in the Driver s seat dictating where i was going and knowing i was responsible for the trip. There was something thrilling about she talks of making a decision her Mother would no longer manage her career and the William Morris Agency would represent her for the time being. She fiddles with her hair. Breaking the news to her Mother was traumatic. I said you know in order for me to feel Strong about what i m doing it s important that i m in control " she goes on. It s a dynamic after 29 years that s difficult to change especially when two people love each other so now donuts comes into the room and Shields looking grateful for the distraction scoops up the dog and hugs her. Andre got her groomed and brought her Home with Pink bows in her hair. He said she s a Pink lady just like her mom " their meeting by fax a year and a half ago came at the suggestion of a matchmaking Friend who had tried in vain to set up a Blind Date. Agassi was Home in Las vegas at the time and Shields was in Australia shoot ing a movie called the seventh floor. I sent the first fax something comedic she re Calls and he faxed Back a serious letter. He mentioned god two or three after three months the faxes gave Way to phone Calls until last fall when they met face to face Over pasta in a los Angeles restaurant. They had much in common. His wrist was bandaged from surgery and she was getting ready for her operation. We could hardly look at one another she says hardly eat our food. We had communicated very personally and now suddenly we were meeting and Deal ing with having a crush on each other. I was dropping my purse and fumbling with my car keys like i was in High so. It s love pressing her Napkin to her lips she weighs her words. We Are very Happy together. We Are a Strong committed couple. We Are not but the gossip columns had her being fitted for a wedding dress. Of that. It seems she was shopping with a Friend who was getting married when she saw a wedding dress she liked. I had it fitted without the train and Bustle to Wear to a Black and White Agassi is not the first Tennis Star in her life. She is a granddaughter of Francis Shields a Playboy and a Wimbledon finalist in the 1930s. It has been suggested that this accounts for her attraction to Agassi. She laughs at the idea. My Grandfather was a bad boy with a Strong Persona says Shields who was 10 when he died but i never really knew him. I Don t think i saw him More than twice.". \ -. Nor did she play much Tennis As a child despite pressure from the crowd at the country club. I do now she says rising from the table and head ing for the television set. Because i did t have any bad habits to overcome Andre is teaching me his game. She smiles. It s very Page 26 sunday november 27,1994
