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Hosannas for Rosanna
SPOTLIGHT
She has an Audrey Hepburn look here, fragile and elegant, but with something sultry around the eyes. If you saw her as the witchy child-woman who haunts Gary Gilmore in The Executioner's Song you know she can also be voluptuous, slinky, even sort of trashy. And if you caught her as the cocky prom princess in John Sayles's Baby It's You you can envision her as a rich kid, snobby and knowing, a little bit scared. In fact, it's hard to imagine anything Rosanna Arquette can't do. The granddaughter of Cliff Arquette (television's Charley Weaver), and the inspiration for Toto's hit song "Rosanna" (band member Steve Porcaro is her ex-boyfriend), she stars opposite Christopher Reeve in The Aviator, opening next month. In March she'll be teamed up with the rock star Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan and with Griffin Dunne in Martin Scorsese's After Hours. Then it's on to Lawrence Kasdan's new Western, Silverado, in which she plays an ornery filly tom between Kevin Kline and Scott Glenn. "I've never focused on my work a hundred percent," says Rosanna. Now she knows how 200 percent feels.
"I want to get away from playing teenagers. There's only so much they do. They pout, they cry—enough is enough, you know?"
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