Movies

July, 1999

Arbiters of mass taste seem to think the public has no memory and cares only about celebrities of the moment. Consider then the phenomenon of two extraordinary female movie stars--one from the silent era, the other from the Fifties and Sixties--who are still in the spotlight: Mary Pickford and Audrey Hepburn.Hepburn is in a class by herself. Her look is utterly contemporary, and more than one young woman I know has pictures of her tacked to her bulletin board at work. When the publisher of Legen...