thursday, february 26, 2004
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the university daily kansan 3B
Television special to explore strange death, work of actress
The Associated Press
NEW YORK Movie stars can gain eternal life from the films they leave behind.
But Natalie Wood, a child actress who became a dazzling star, is remembered today less for her performances in such films as Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass and West Side Story than for her strange, untimely death: She fell off her yacht under murky circumstances and drowned at 43.
A new television biopic, The Mystery of Natalie Wood, proposes how it happened nearly a
quarter-century ago. And raises another issue: the widespread disregard for Wood's acting skills, both during her lifetime and since.
The film, airing on ABC at 7 p.m. Monday, casts newcomer Justine Waddell as Wood, the dark-eyed beauty who appeared in more than 50 movies, from Miracle on 34th Street and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in childhood through her posthumous sci-fi thriller Brainstorm.
And it is directed by Peter Bogdanovich, a Wood contemporary (now 64, he was born the year after her) and a veteran filmmaker whose credits include Paper
Moon and The Last Picture Show.
He's also a show-biz insider who, in 1980, was drawn into a Hollywood tragedy that inspired two movies of its own. Both a television film and Bob Fosse's Star 80 portrayed the murder of centerfold-turned-actress Dorothy Stratten — Bogdanovich's girlfriend.
Offered The Mystery of Natalie Wood, Bogdanovich was "intrigued," he says during a recent conversation at his Manhattan apartment.
"But I didn't know if I wanted to do it, because I knew the people a little bit," he said.
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