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Newcomer Gregori Derangere is the perpetually bemused Frederic, an impoverished writer still in love with his childhood crush. She’s now the popular actress Viviane Denvers (Isabelle Adjani, who looks like she’s been given a severe dose of Botox). So intoxicating is Viviane’s hold on Frederic that he doesn’t mind being imprisoned for a crime she committed, later following her across France to Bordeaux’s Hotel Splendide. A crop of rabid aristocrats have also gathered at the Splendide to escape the madhouse of Paris and badger...
...only follows that Frederic and Raoul, who has taken an immediate fancy to the girl, need to embroil themselves in the political and romantic mess with Raoul’s hopelessly star-struck friends (Viviane’s an actress, remember?), strategically introduced for more comic relief. Call it a veritable love hexagon, in which people are always in love with people in love with other people...
DIED. JAN STERLING, 82, cool blond actress, who played sharp supporting roles in such films of the 1950s as Caged and Ace in the Hole and snagged an Oscar nomination for her role as a passenger on a troubled airliner in 1954's The High and the Mighty; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
Even by her bass baritone--level standards of public decency, COURTNEY LOVE has sunk to a new low. On Late Show with David Letterman last week, the singer-actress babbled about drug charges she faces and repeatedly bared her bosoms. At a New York City club that same night, the rock widow allegedly tossed a microphone stand into the crowd, injuring a man and getting charged with assault. Love's publicist says, "She will be vindicated." The only person to profit from the display was Whitney Houston, whose entry into rehab earlier in the week was soon forgotten...
DIED. MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE, 87, film, stage and television actress who won an Oscar for her 1949 screen debut, as a Southern Governor's hard-boiled secretary and lover, in All the King's Men; in San Diego. Her voice later became indelible when she mouthed the profanities for Linda Blair's possessed Regan in The Exorcist...