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...woman approaches me at The Rat. She is small and comely, her thin black dress, cut in strips that hang from her waist, revealing in a flash. Saucy red lipstick and a flower painted on her cheek, she is a smiler, coming right up to me and asking if she can illustrate my entire body. She is a body illustrator. Her name is Cretin Hop. At home she gives me cleavage, shows me a giant watercolor illustration of Patti Smith--slightly smudged by sweat--marked painstakingly beneath the knap of a breast...
Another actress Allen admires is his Manhattan costar, Mariel Hemingway, who is 17. "I wrote the part for her after seeing her in Lipstick and stumbling across her photo in Andy Warhol's Interview magazine. She met with me, and after two minutes I knew she was right. When we were making the film, she always stayed in character when we improvised. Even when I went off in an unexpected direction, she could always go with the scene...
Bergerac has doubled Revlon's advertising budget, to some $135 million this year, and developed a merchandising program called Retail Partners, under which Revlon designs displays and provides promotional materials for stores to encourage them to put on splashy shows. One for Bordeaux lipstick, nail polish and other cosmetics took a whole floor of Manhattan's Bonwit Teller; Revlon supplied books on wine and even old wine barrels to show off. When a Revlon product is a hit, Bergerac quickly follows it with others under the same name. Charlie, for example, has spread since 1974 from a fragrance...
...note of elegance; one woman who uses the perfume was let down to discover that it came from Revlon. Says she: "I bought it because I thought it was Italian." Cosmetics names in general are picked to convey some image, but among the thousands of nail polish and lipstick shade names, the images get a bit fuzzy...
High price is itself a selling point in cosmetics, a fact about which Bergerac is not the least apologetic. Asked if a $2.50 lipstick and a $6 lipstick are just the same product in a different case, he replies that the formulas are changed, but swiftly shoots back a question of his own. "Suppose they were the same and you knew it? Which would you buy for your wife if you wanted to impress her? If spending more makes you feel better, why not do it? How can you put a price on happiness...