In her book ”Stars!” movie critic Daphne Davis presents a picture of Diane Keaton as a witch`s brew of weakness and strength. ”Diane would get up in the morning and apologize for it,” according to her ”Annie Hall” co-star, Tony Roberts. ”She feels that what she is doing is not good enough because her standards are so high,” says former boyfriend/director Woody Allen. And another former boyfriend/director, Warren Beatty, says: ”She has a great sense of the terror that a woman can feel who has an insecure identity. And she has a great sense of the comedic aspect of that terror.” But, to let Keaton have the last word on Keaton, she says, ”I`m a nervous wreck around men.”
”My father advised me on how to audition,” says Kate Vernon of ”Falcon Crest,” the father in this case being John Vernon, who played the part of Dean Wormer in ”Animal House.” ”He said just go in there and have a good time. Most of the audition has nothing to do with acting. It`s the way you present yourself, your confidence, how comfortable you are with yourself. Acting counts for maybe 10 percent–at most.”
”What are you most afraid of?” asked Psychology Today magazine in a recent poll of its readers. The answers, given by more than a thousand respondents, show that Fear No. 1 is ”death of a loved one,” followed by
”serious illness.” Third in the fear list are ”nuclear war” for women and ”financial failure” for men. Somewhat surprising was the finding that more people are afraid of running into spiders and snakes than of losing their jobs. One reader wrote, ”The Russians could place me in a room and release a couple of snakes, and I would tell them anything.” And two respondents said their greatest fear was running out of toilet paper.
REPLAYS
”The tank is a pretty mechanical toy.”
Lord Kitchener
”The airplane is of no military value.”
Marshall Ferdinand Foch
”We need not worry over the consequences of breaking up the atom.”
Floyd W. Parsons
