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Article: Katharine Hepburn's Au Courant ``Affair'' // At Age 87, a Legend Returns to the Screen
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 23, 1994
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NEW YORK Strange. In most movie love stories, the turning point
takes place in a scene between the lovers. In "Love Affair," which
is about how characters played by Warren Beatty and Annette Bening
fall in love, it takes place in a scene between Bening and Katharine
Hepburn.
Beatty is nowhere in sight. He and Bening have landed on
Tahiti, for reasons too complicated to explain, after having fallen
in love at first sight on an airplane. It happens that Beatty has an
elderly aunt who lives on the island, and he takes Bening to meet
her. Hepburn sees at once that this is the woman for her beloved
nephew. And before she is finished serving tea to Bening, she has
made the young woman see so, ...