Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 5, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press entertainment Section Morley Walker 16977374 b1 1995 on too acclaimed actress Pfeiffer has it All Fame and Fortune by Robert Abele news service dont have to hate Michelle Pfeiffer anymore because Shes so you can hate her because she appears to have it All now family and Fame the acclaimed actress married hand successful to producer David creator of televisions picket fences and Chicago and has two Claudia Rose two and a half and John Henry just one three Oscar nominations dangerous the fabulous Baker love Field and a steady Perch on Hollywood Alist of female i have no the striking Pfeiffer said recently in an interview to promote her new the teacher Stu Dent drama dangerous which opens next i think my balance Between career and family is a Good shot last year while Pfeiffer was preg Nant with John dangerous minds tells the True Story of Marine turned teacher Lou Ann whose Book my posse dont do Homework the films original title chronicles Johnsons efforts to educate at risk High school kids in education has always been an important Issue with and i was so impressed with this woman and her Pfeiffer said of whose techniques ran the Gamut from free meals As rewards to repeatedly telling and showing these kids her respect for they need to be seen As individuals and reached As individuals they cant be All homogenized into one and i think it takes people like Lou Ann to recognize its confusing to leave behind childhood and move into theres absolutely no preparation for moving into the one of Johnsons biggest strengths As a Pfeiffer is she understands that you cant get anywhere until you get their and once you get their to keep their attention is something Pfeiffer certainly Hast had trouble commanding from movie but she admits she was intimidated by the cast of this Many of them kids culled from real they were already a team by the time i showed up for she walked into the real and Here i i had to be a and i didst know How to it was very much like this character you can see my progression in the movie i get More Comfort i want acting that Johnsons Day today Battles in the class room carefully weaved a quilt of Mutual and it made a genuine difference in her students who grew up in Orange said she really could have used a teacher like Lou but does credit her High school drama for inspiration and with Only one line i think you have some Confidence she had planted a and i had Confidence in one i honestly dont if she haunt said that to if i would have become an now is approaching the age Range in which actresses find it difficult to find and to Snag Good i know that this is my window of oppor but thank god for people like meryl Streep and Jessica Lange and Susan they still get to be yeah theres Hope for All of but things Start to slow for most leading part of maintain ing that Success is knowing How to smell a but Pfeiffer cachet has always been diversity from the self actualized mafia Moll of married to the mob to the Slinky Suzy Diamond in Baker boys to the chirpy Texas housewife of love but be it cat woman in Batman returns or countess Olenska in the age of inno her involvement is based on the Reward of the not the potential Box office i just really respond to interesting she it Doest even really matter to me much if in starring in it or not starring in she then slowed Down to perhaps it should matter it May still be debated in Hollywood whether Pfeiffer can open a guarantee opening weekend but after 15 years in the one thing is cer and dangerous minds director John a respected Veteran of Csc and Nib knows it All too Well there Are very few people the camera loves the Way the camera loves he its you want to look at and Shes and As Pfeiffer and Smith worked in tandem at every Hon ing the keeping the film focused and fighting the producers the studio to ensure that the Story be told with not for a Hollywood newcomer like fresh from his Triumph with the boys of his acclaimed dramatization of the mount Cashel orphanage sex abuse it was the difference Between having a creative partner and a Mere spokes per Hes interested in whats going make the Best so that was a real Smith from what Ive i was very because my Star was totally not someone who throws tantrums or needs to be treated if anybody could use special treatment in this its a new on one you know her children Are Pfeif fers favorite if Only because this is when her answers erupt without Hestia so what did parenting teach her last week children will not be she making an unwitting parallel to the dilemma presented in dangerous the worse mistake you can make with a Twoy Earold is to get into a Power because you will lose hands Down dont even bother going so you have to manipulate them she laughed Pfeiffer has played a variety of roles from countess Olenska top to Suzy Diamond right and her present Fole As a teacher in dangerous and How is Hubby fitting into All this Hes she Hes made huge changes in his Hes Cut Back the hours he works so he can see the kids and we can have family Hes juggling and in really so the Pfeiffer film tally is 22 movies including the just finished up close and personal with Robert and the Pfeiffer kid tally is she loves both of her highly demanding but while movies come and children Are an ongo ing always in always it Doest Stop her from i see these newborns and i maybe i will have another one and you forget you do about lying in in a in a in a that was my mantra when John was cry ing himself to in a in a after nearly Les Miz still leaves Star Mist eyed by Kevin Prokosh arts reporter Solo is one of the longest running the enduring attraction of the Mega musical Les miserable is its unfaltering Power to touch audiences emotionally with its epic Story about revolution and audiences around the Globe often leap to their cheering and sometimes weeping in response to the shows stirring finale in which the indomitable miserable sing out a choral plea to join in our dont think that this emotional outpouring is restricted Only to seasoned actors still get Mist eyed during this stage version of Victor Hugos classic even after performing in it for Ive done the show close to times and i find myself moved every single says William who plays the unjustly hounded fugitive Jean Valjean in the american touring production of Les opening tues Day at the Centennial concert i suppose if it can happen to me and its my workaday it can continue to happen to the i get amazing letters from peo ple who Are actually transformed and spiritually lifted by seeing this Les Miz audiences next week will be thick with patrons whole seen the musical melodrama previous Tours of the Cla Demichel schonber Galain Boublis written play stopped Here in 1992 and there Are still things that touch my heart every says the 47yearold the silence after the death of the students at the barricades just tears me eponine death just kills sentimental in sort of a sentimental i have no trouble getting emotionally attached to the that what makes Solo one of the longest running Val jeans in the Les Miz shortly after it debuted on Broadway in he became understudy to Colm the original not Long Solo assumed the Lead role for the first National touring company in later he starred in the second nation Al touring company in los Angeles before returning to Solo began a five year hiatus from Les mis enables in 1990 before returning last january to head the third National tour currently in Western Ive done them says a new yorker born in for someone my size and Type this is possibly one of the biggest and Best things available to me in the one of the most frequent questions Solo encounters on the Road is about the shows production when tickets sell for As High As people need to be assured that a technically demanding show such As Les mis enables has All the expected Bells and Whis Winni Eggers will see a clone of the Broad Way says Complete with the award winning Scenic which includes Hydraulic the computer turntable stage and High tech sound while Solo plugs into the shows he never allows himself to be swallowed up by his that a lesson i Learned he there was a person during rehearsals who was getting All choked up on the emotions of the moment and the director said it is better for the if you let them ;