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...seems in pain, yet amused by her misery, when she confesses to John Barrymore, "I want to be alone." That line, from the 1932 Grand Hotel, was often taken as Greta Garbo's autobiographical declaration. The unique actress remained above and apart from the Hollywood community in her 16 years there, and she compounded her aloof allure when, on quitting films at age 36, she took up residence in Manhattan and became the world's most famous, most observed recluse...
...higher world of thought and feeling. In her one indisputably great film, Camille, she bestows love on the youthful Armand (Robert Taylor) as a gift from the gods; and, with her anguished, rapturous death, she leaves it with him. Her performance raises melodrama to a feature-length epiphany. No actress today could play a courtesan's self-sacrifice at such a high and perfect pitch. None would dare...
Standing outside Gwyneth Paltrow's airy California childhood home is a lithe, shirtless rock star. Inside, Paltrow's 15-month-old daughter toddles around, all eyes and cheeks, so fresh and juicy looking that her name, Apple, immediately makes sense. Paltrow offers tea. Her mother, veteran actress Blythe Danner, frets that there are no almond cookies to eat and instead suggests a peach. Chris Martin, the aforementioned rock star, who is Paltrow's spouse and Apple's dad, wanders in and chats about how there might be "people" (that is, paparazzi) outside. Paltrow mentions there is a journalist...
...career avenues that were closed to others. Her celebrity, as well as her talent, helped bring her interesting work, the cutest guys (including her husband, who fronts the band Coldplay and whom she met backstage at one of his concerts), homes in New York City and London, a Best Actress Oscar and such close friends as Madonna and Jude Law. But Paltrow, who will turn 33 this month, has now had her fill. Fame is an asset of which she wishes to divest herself. "Everything I wanted to achieve, I achieved," she says, all legs and elbows and neck...
...paradise. In this bucolic valley, Muslims live in peace with their Hindu neighbors and share a common culture, woven of Indian and Islamic traditions. Embodying this syncretic culture is Pachigam, a village of theatrical performers and cooks, where a tightrope walker nicknamed Shalimar has fallen in love with an actress named Boonyi. There is opposition to their marriage, because he is Muslim and she is Hindu; but this is Kashmir, and love triumphs over religion. Before they can have a child, however, their village gets a visitor: the American ambassador to India. Since this is a Rushdie book...