Word: seductress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem with most of the songs--and most of the show--is that the words fail the actors. Although seductress Amanda Pleasme swivels her fuschia panties and star-covered chest, nothing can be done to make her lyrics stand out in "You've Got My Vote." Typical of her lines are snoozers like, "You've got my vote/As long as I'm able/And when it comes to love/My motion's on the table...
Second, more subliminally, there lies embedded within the semantics of the world the awful truth that there is something old and decaying, something like an aging seductress sagged beyond appeal, something grandmother-like, in the whole sick thing called rock 'n' roll...
...Guide last week dubbed the worst in its category last season. Undaunted, she is returning to France in the four-hour World War II melodrama Monte Carlo for the same network. This time she plays a Russian- born singer out to avenge her slain husband. She becomes a seductress-spy, inducing enemy generals to reveal war secrets. Not content with being the star and co-executive producer, Collins, 53, makes her singing debut, rendering The Last Time I Saw Paris in her patented libidinous tones. "I chose the song because it was the most popular number in 1939," says Collins...
...just finished shooting a mystery in Baltimore called The Bedroom Window. She plays a sultry, sophisticated woman, a "black angel," as she puts it, who cheats on her husband and fails to report a crime because it might reveal her affair. After many roles as a youthful seductress, Huppert welcomes the change of face. "My characters were more childish in my other movies," she says. "In The Bedroom Window I get to play a real woman...
...social and political implications of the Revolution would be better left out, as would the character of Tom Paine, who speaks essays rather than conversation. Hanna Schygulla, as the Comtesse, has gone from the cold severity of her Fassbinder mold to a comparably fixed part of decadent and shallow seductress--melting her audiences with a look that oozes sexuality. But if her excesses are intended as some sort of comment on the monarchy, or if the excerpts of serious analysis are intended to be heeded, then Scola has produced a muddled failure. The film's frivolity, if intended...