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Vanessa Redgrave, daughter Joely Richardson team in new film

By GREGORY KATZ even if she's far better
LONDON (AP) — She first known for her dramatic
saw the play as a child, work onstage.
when her famous father For Richardson, working
adapted it from a Henry with her mother highlights
James novella and played what she calls "that Mom-
the male lead. Decades Vanessa thing." It's what
later, Vanessa Redgrave happens when your moth-
acted the role of Miss Tina er has been famous your
on stage. entire life — and has set a
More time has passed, and standard in the profession
now she is playing the for- you chose.
bidding grande dame Juli- "It's so funny, 'cause obvi-
ana Bordereau in a movie ously mom's mom to me,
version of "The Aspern Pa- but when I'm talking about
pers" that opens Friday her in a professional capac-
in the United States, this ity, I tend to go into calling
time with her daughter Jo- her Vanessa," Richardson
ely Richardson cast in the says. "When your mother's
younger woman's role. public and private, it's a
"I've been through every two-name deal." Working
version of it," says Redgrave, with her mother has been
whose blue eyes still pierce. revelatory, says Richard-
"My father was in it with two son, who has also shared
wonderful actresses, which British actresses Vanessa Redgrave and her daughter Joely Richardson pose for portrait photo- screen and stage time with
I saw a number of times. graphs before an interview with The Associated Press in London, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. Judi Dench, Glenn Close,
Then I was in it much later Associated Press Robert DeNiro and other
as Miss Tina, and suddenly greats. "Sometimes I see
I get the chance to be this looking into the eyes of her have paired, a sequence At the time, Richardson her as Vanessa," says Rich-
ferocious Bordereau, the daughter — "She's so beau- that includes Redgrave — one of the three stars ardson, 54. "Being on stage
old lady, which is kind of tiful," Redgrave coos — or joining her daughter on the — worried that her mother with her, it was like, oh my
the full stretch of the bow, if cuddling her poodle-Po- popular TV series "Nip/Tuck" might not cope well with God, this is where it hap-
you see what I mean." meranian, Zep. in a number of episodes, in- the demands of weekly pens. It's in these moments,
Redgrave, at 81, still radi- "It was heaven working with cluding one in which Red- television, including the these magic moments,
ates the outspoken intel- Joels," Redgrave says, pro- grave sought a facelift from need for quick memoriza- when she's truly more pres-
ligence that has charac- nouncing her daughter's one of the two handsome tion of dozens of pages of ent than I've ever seen her
terized her film and stage nickname as Jules. young plastic surgeons at scripts. be, probably, in real life. It's
work, softening only when It is the fourth time the two the heart of the show. Her mom thrived, of course, an extraordinary thing."q

CBS' Mo Rocca to begin podcast series

on 'Mobituaries'

Thursday.
The first episode focuses
on Vaughn Meader, the
comic and John F. Ken-
nedy impersonator with
a wildly successful career
that essentially ended with
that president's assassina-
tion in 1963. Rocca draws
on an old CBS News inter-
view with Meader that was
little-used at the time it was
done.
"It's sort of like hearing
someone from the grave
telling you what it was like
In this May 13, 2015 file photo, Mo Rocca attends the CBS Net- to be dead even when he
work 2015 Programming Upfront in New York. was alive," Rocca said. "It's
Associated Press very raw."
"Mobituaries" casts a wide
By DAVID BAUDER coming book called — wait net: from the "death" of a
Associated Press for it — "Mobituaries" — he forgotten sitcom character
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS takes an intriguing look (Richie Cunningham's older
News "Sunday Morning" at the lives and deaths of brother on "Happy Days"),
correspondent and humor- not just people, but ideas, to the station wagon, the
ist Mo Rocca has his own careers and social move- period of Reconstruction
spin on obituaries. ments. The first of eight and Herbert Hoover's pre-
In a new podcast and up- weekly episodes premieres presidency life.q