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REMAINS TO BE SEEN Emma Thompson seems almost too healthy to be a celebrity. Ask her why she makes movies, and she roars back, "Filthy lucre!" Says James Ivory, Thompson's director in "Howards End" and in the forthcoming "Remains of the Day": "Emma is sane. That's a wonderful thing. She also has intelligence, tremendous acting talent and terrific style." Her "Howards End" performance is a compact master class in screen subtlety. Margaret, everyone's vivacious, sensible big sister, escorts the story from the familial drollery of the early scenes-Jane Austen in London-to the muted tragedy of class prejudice at the core of E.M. Forster's 1910 novel. Just now she is writing a screenplay of Austen's "Sense and Sensibility". The main character, Elinor, seems just right for her: "possessed of a strength of understanding, and coolness of judgment." PHOTO CREDIT: JOHN MANTEL-SIPA PRESS |
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