Word: vadim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need to adapt foreign ideas and keep up technologically with foreign mili tary equipment has introduced a capitalist-like competitiveness to military production that is woefully lacking in the domestic economy, where shoddy goods do not face the test of the marketplace. As a leading Soviet economist, Academician Vadim Trapeznikov says, "One of the mainsprings of progress is the comparison of the quality of goods with that of the products of other domestic and foreign firms. This is particularly apparent in the defense industry, where there is a permanent and inevitable comparison with foreign technology...
...choice of actors is an alchemy of pragmatism and intuition. "Producing," she says, "is just chemistry plus some financing." Her form of creative control is to give everyone virtual free rein. An upcoming production of The Beauty and the Beast, for example, has been filmed by Director Roger Vadim in the surrealistic style of Jean Cocteau. Duvall encourages the actors to take chances, even allowing Carol Kane to portray a good fairy as an insecure and pixieish Valley Girl...
...proper jeune fille of an affluent father who once whipped her 50 times. ("I felt like a stranger in my parent's house. That's perhaps why I have had so many houses, houses I have bought myself, to feel at home.") It was Roger Vadim who first saw an international sex symbol in the guise of an ingenue of 15. He became her husband and Svengali. ("I was not used to such handsome men ... I was so shy, a little girl still. I wore white socks and a sophomoric white collar and tie.") In the film...
Jane Fonda is not "raising her two daughters," because she has only one, Vanessa, by Roger Vadim. Her other child is Tom Hayden's son Troy...
...late '50s Jane was a Vogue cover girl, fresh out of Vassar and mummified in heavy makeup. The early '60s saw her as Hollywood's all-American ingenue in Tall Story and Sunday in New York. A few years later, her then husband Roger Vadim retooled her into a European sex symbol as Barbarella. By the early '70s she was a scrawny, scraggly Hanoi Jane, the ardent activist who visited the Viet Cong, turned up at Black Panther rallies, and cheered on the Indians who occupied Alcatraz, earning contumely for herself and an Oscar...