Article: Pfeiffer Brings More Than Her Beauty to the Screen

"She eats the lens." - Robert Redford describing Michelle Pfeiffer in "Up Close and Personal." Michelle Pfeiffer's official biography no longer mentions her early screen appearances in such movies as "The Hollywood Knights" and "Grease 2," nor does it list her role as "The Bombshell" in a deservedly short-lived frat-boy sitcom inspired by "Animal House."

Revisionist publicity suggests she arrived on the scene with star presence intact when she co-starred in Brian De Palma's splashy mess, "Scarface," as Elvira, the translucently thin, unbearably frosty and pathetically coked-up object of Al Pacino's affections.

Fine. I can understand why Pfeiffer's people wouldn't want her to be ...

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