You can take the girl out of Idaho,
but country-bred MarieI Hemingway
will always be a Sawtooth Mountains
gal at heart.
out what it takes to be a world-class
one,” she says with a grin. Exercise re
mains a top priority in her life, so much
so that she's recently made a video of
her personal routine. “Please don't say
it’s me competing with Jane Fonda. It’s
just an alternative.”
Hemingway remains close to her fam
ily but spends less and less time in
Idaho, where she passed a summer
building her own cabin with a group erf
friends. Home now is a New York
apartment and she has to keep in touch
by phone with Margaux in Los Angeles
and third sister Muffet who’s “a cook and
writes cookery books” and who stayed
in Idaho.
Working on Creator with director ivan
(Cutter’s Way) Passer and O’Toole has
been a thrill for Mariel “because Peter is
legendary'. I was so nervous. 1 didn’t
know what to expea. But it turned out
great. He’l! try anything. He’ll go and
make such a fool of himself and then
he’ll make it work. He’s taught me to be
freer in what I do.”
For his part, Creator screenwriter
Jeremy' Leven sums up the feelings of
the produaion people when he says,
“Mariel was a surprise and is a continuing
surprise. She’s a superb actress — as far
as I’m concerned the most underrated
young aaress around.”
Mariel Hemingway is not likely to be
underrated for much longer. Besides,
she feels "the feta that it has been sort of
slow for me has been good. Apart from
Manhattan, my movies haven’t been
huge boxoffice hits and that’s been OK.
To live up to a really big movie is hard.
I’ve worked with strong direaors and
I’ve been lucky that at least two of them
— Robert Towne and Bob Fosse — are
the kind of people who do keep in
touch and do continue the relationship
after the film is finished, which is very'
unusual in this business. Some nice
projects are coming to me now and I’m
getting excited. For a long time, not
much came in because no one knew if
I could play a woman or if I was still a
teenager. Star ’80 sort of settled that.”
Republican love inspired musk
Pachyderms and Asses
POLLS APART
Trying to figure out whether or not — deep down —you're a liberal
or conservative? Palms getting sweaty' over the prospect of choosing
sides this election year? Drinking yourself half to death trying to
figure out whether Fritz ’n’ Gerry' or Ronnie n’ George should be in
charge of spending the nation into bankruptcy' over the next four
years? Is that what’s bothering you, Bunky?
Then lift ypur head up high, square back your shoulders and take a walk
in the sun! Polls Apart —A Handy Guide to Knowing Your Ass from Your
Elephant is the book for you. Covering such political necessities as sports,
suicide, money, kissing, stupid lawn decorations, booze, art scandal and play*
ing the ponies, Polls Apart humbles not only such "serious" books of political
nonfiction as The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, AH the President’s Men and
Ball Four but—what with almost one hundred cleverly etched cartoons—has
a leg up on such American fiction giants as Moby Dick and Marjorie Morning
star as well.
That’s right. Strange as it may seem, there are no carttxjns in Moby Dick —
quite a missed opportunity. However, the cartoonery of Polls Apart, rendered
by sometime Ampersand contributor Bill Plympton, is classically frantic and
the prose is a lot more digestible than Melville’s. In fact, the prose is essen
tially a string of captions for visual jokes. Polls Apart is one of those "concept
books that will be found near the cash register, priced at 2-1/2 times the cost
of a greeting card. The publisher has referenced it handily as "Humor/
Politics,” but Polls Apart is really for people who see the two entities as one.
Or maybe that’s meant to be read “Humor Slash Politics,” which actually
sounds like a good idea.
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