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By Doug Bell
Movies made from bestinevitably
provoke a standan
"the book is better," "th
makers) left out the best
changed it around too much."
Such predictable derision
me ? it's all so prejudicial an
I try not to be annoyed w
made in the transition from i
Books are books and movies
the film adaptation is good ?
movie ? I try not to care
viuiciiuj 11 win iu> auurcc.
WHILE WATCHING "Sof
however, I found myself
same old platitudes I once fot
William Styron's "Sophie'
huge, haunting novel na
struggling, young Southern
Stingo, newly transplanted to
Stingo builds an extraordii
with a strange but dazzling
Nathan, a suave, brilliant,
medical researcher, and Sopl
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autobiography (Stingo obvioi
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South as well as Nazi Gern
tragic fictional narrative. His
sensitive authorial involvenr
book its artistic unity and emc
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and directed by Alan Pakula
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laptation of
selling novels film i
d controversy:
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parts," "they "To Kill a Mockir
earnest, straiehtfor
usually bores well acted, but t
yhow. creative personalit)
ith alterations rather impersonal ii
)age to screen. The same could
are movies; il Choice."
if it works as a
! if it departs PAKULA HAS ad
in a conventional
structure, conder
>hie's Choice," scenes, switching 1
mumbling the one character rathe
md irrit.atincr aHanhtinn t\( ito
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s Choice" is a My deepest re,
irrated by a narrative voice i
writer named diminished here th
Brooklyn. the real author is
lary friendship excised.
pair of lovers: It could have b
violent Jewish teresting, provocat
lie, a beautiful, there been back-<
th a Nazi con- Styron's career. F
ittooed on her formance as the :
dimensionless and u
aves semi- Of course, the f
isly represents mature Stingo (the i
the American but that voice is as
nany) into his convincing as the on
? deep, acutely Walton's Mountain e
tent gives the
>tional depth. SINCE SOPHIE is
however, it is my ]
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("Klute," "All Streep is a marvel
perfect: a delica
nation, judging simultaneously in
for the screen vulnerable and
gbird"), is to withstanding increc
e to the novel, and guilt, able to lov
is. The novel's In her first long <
ie's strengths, meets Stingo at hi
be parallel. dual nature is eviri
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If author
Gray really
aged for hin
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ner, now 62
i charm that
Hollywood's
Turner is
tour with I
Among Fri<
Series will \
The Town
production
three years.
Turner exhi
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as MGM ar
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take on a lo
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glf end up worl
What Tur
dropped froi
.... , day on the
years, still exhibits that despite the i
ay at The Township. tension on tl
novel may s
review MNMl
lgbird," for example, is I
-ward, entertaining and
itterly devoid of real
y Tf in in J? ->
r. 11 lOy 111 UU1C1 wuius, a ,
nterpretation.
be said for "Sophie's
lapted the lengthy novel
manner, retaining its ^
ising and combining mWJ ^
ocales, and focusing on IJrJr
t than three. It is a good Wjf
d. / >?
gret is that Stingo's j|tf
and presence are so m
lat any resemblance to jf
carefully, and stupidly, I
een a much more in- SH
ive and sly movie had ,jMsK.
ihatting references to JgBr
eter MacNichol's per- : ;.?K
young writer is weak, ; V mF
nconvincing.
ilm is narrated by a MpaPmil
voice of Josef Sommer), gura
remote, hokey and une
that used to waft down
?the movie's true focus, HHHHH
pleasure to report that Nathan (K
ler to the hilt. Carpet slide
I to watch. Her Sophie is
te, haunting beauty, chanting yc
telligent and naive, fatale.
durable, capable of One bool
lible measures of pain revealing <
e and prone to lie. unpredictal
ilose-up shot, when she same misU
s apartment door, her film is an
lent: she's both an en- story, boli
ins nlav tn T
r,%*f w
haw Rumors r
Oscar Wilde's fictitious Dorian ^ complel
had a portrait of himself that weekend, o
n, surely Lana Turner possesses Turner app
rtrait. endings we
'ears in the film industry, Tur- know what
itii . onf nro of ill t
, stiu nas ine oeauty, grace ana ?ww?o?wm?
earned her the nickname of
"Sweater Girl.'' TUKNEF
in Columbia to begin a six-city w:th thf>
the comedy/mystery "Murder ?<n
jnds," which the USC Cultural draped or
>resent tomorrow and Friday at a fr
ship. This is the seventh 1*3
of the play Turner has done in cltffhanger
Long bef
r ,, , Turner ms
RE press conference Monday, dnrint? thp
bited the glamour that made her her Contra(
ring her career with studios such
id Warner Brothers. She spoke ^
t her many films tha about Vpnr anH n
mong Friends," simply because ^ sort Q'f
[n IcPPn thp mvstprv a mtictorv - -
?- ^ ~ ^* training.
very wealthy woipan married to Turner si
stical actor. And I'm bored, so I studios tra
ver," she said of her character, tresses wo
h a mischievous smile, "and along slowl
n going to tell you. to the publ
i, the play's director, who ac- ceptyou fo
Turner to the conference, would .p^ner s.
/ague references to plot twists, hnnpfnU u
urder plots and "red herring" i? h
Murder Among Friends" will ctnop hntn
izzle until tomorrow night. "The '
> come," Turner promised.
has done well enough to re- 4'CERTA
irner as a box office draw, but necessary.
y of audiences today know the actors and
de from the CBS nighttime soap she said,
con Crest." Playing opposite Unlike ne
in, Turner has won admirers the chanc
inger generation generally un- Hollywood'
h her movies. as Gable
Barrymore
SAID she enjoyed working on Garfield. \
'I like television, hut I hatp th*? plnccin ,,ri
? everyone does, because you Twice."
king late. All in all, though, it's "We did
swearing,"
ner intensely dislikes about her "Postman,
^alcon Crest" is the story cir- mean, we ?
x)ut Wyman wanting Turner butwhypul
m the show ? or else. Turner di
t horrible? I like Miss Wyman a with Jack P
hard worker and works every did she wai
show," Turner said. She said that to it'
rumor's falseness, it still caused alone? " Tu:
le set.
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wtter by comp<
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levin Kline), Sophie (Meryl Streep) end Stingo (I
i at Coney Island. Inset: director Alan Pakula.
rnng lover and a doomed femme (Kevin Kli
lover, Nath
c reviewer was castigated for photograph
too much of the novel's rich, dros).
t>le plot. I'll avoid making the It won't p
?ke by reporting simply that the most view<
absorbing, highly tragic love pointed wh
stered by fine performances powerful sc
ownship
lotwithstanding, "Falcon Crest"
:e filming of its season finale last
ne of the few episodes in which
>eared. She said seven different
ire shot, so only a few people
; the cliffhanger will be. The
ion't know.
t COMPARED the final episode
ho shot J.R.?" story from the TV
lias," but said it would not be
1 as long as "Dallas" was. She
ained vague on any specifics,
it was to be waited on in the
, she said "Aha!" mischievously,
ore "Falcon Crest," of course,
ide her name as a movie star
studios' golden age. She signed
:t at age 16, and in four years she
ring with Clark Gable at MGM.
an average of four films each
t the same time, was involved in
"learn as you earn" type of
lid she believes the old method of
ining their own actors and acrked
quite well. "We were led
[y, given the proper introduction
ic. And if the public doesn't acrgetit,"
she said. N
lid the main problem with young
>day is their lack of training;
; taken classes or worked on
nany more have not.
INLY SOME sort of training is
Unfortunately, lots of young
actresses don't have enough,"
sophyte actors today, Turner had
:e to work with some of
s true legends, leading men such
;, Spencer Tracy, Lionel
, Robert Taylor and John
Vith the latter, she filmed the
The Postman Always Rings
n't have to have nudity and
she said of her work on
" "Everything was implied. I
ill know how to curse and when,
t the words on film?"
id not see the film's 1980 remake,
Nicholson and Jessica Lange, nor
it to. "Why take a classic and do
' Why not leave well enough
rner asked.
See "Lana Turner," paga 9
irison
WW;
'ater MacNichol) ride the Magic
ne is also excellent as Sophie's
lan), solid direction and luscious
y (courtesy of Nestor Almen
lease all readers of the novel, but
srs at least will not be disapen
they witness the film's most
ene: the "choice" itself.
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