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Article: Carmen Maura is on verge of stardom in America
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 30, 1988
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NEW YORK She laughs, she cries, she cheers, she mimes. It's a
bravura performance, and she doesn't even need a screen.
Carmen Maura, about to command widespread attention among
American film fans in the Spanish farce "Women on the Verge of a
Nervous Breakdown" (now showing at the Fine Arts), can whip up plenty
of drama from her hotel-room armchair. All she needs are a few props
(a pack of Marlboros, a glass of vodka), a couple of leading
questions and an audience, however small.
Presenting, for example, Carmen Maura on the pleasures of being
recognized, for the first time, on the streets of New York: "Is very
special," she announces, vaulting right over the language barrier,
mostly ...