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parents, now doting grandparents.
When Chris discovers that Nola
has returned from America and
opened a boutique in London, he sets.
out to resume their lustful liaisons,
and succeeds. His strenuous double
life, however, begins to crumble
around him when Nola informs him
that she is pregnant and demands
that he leave Chloe.
It is match-point time for Chris: If he
leaves Chloe, it's goodbye to his cushy
life as the boss' son-in-law. Nor has he
shown himself to be a brilliant busi-
nessman who can successfully strike
out on his own.
When he suggests an abortion to
Nola, she becomes even more of a
pathetically comic figure when she
reveals to him that she has had two
abortions already and doesn't plan to
have a third. Desperate measures are
called for, and they are soon under-

tinues. In fact, she admits, "I saw R-
rated movies when I was 9. My parents
didn't care about that. We're so conser-
vative in America that it's unbelievable.
You see a breast and people go ape-s—:'
Scarlett, who has a twin brother,
Hunter, and is a graduate of New York's
Professional Children's School, has
always been advanced for her age.
Danish-born father, Karsten, is a New
York architect; mother, Melanie Sloan, a
Bronx-bred Jew, divorced when Scarlett
was 13 and is now her manager. (Scar-
lett sometimes wears a Star of David.)
Scarlett made her acting debut when
she was 8 in an Off-Broadway play and
landed a key role as Sean Connery's
daughter in Just Cause. And then came
her big break when she became Grace
MacLean, the teen traumatized in a rid-
ing accident in Robert Redford's The
Horse Whisperer. She followed up with
An American Rhapsody, Ghost World
and The Man Who Wasn't There oppo-
site Billy Bob Thornton.
Then, of course, there were her eye-
catching roles in Lost in Translation
opposite Bill Murray, and the seductive
housemaid who entranced Colin Firth
in Girl With A Pearl Earring.
In the last couple of years she has
become a much-in-demand actress,
with six films for the next two years.
Woody Allenwas so taken with his
first outing directing her that he hired
her for his new movie, Scoop, a comedy.
"I got to spend more time with him, I
guess, which is great. It's a little bit dif-
ferent doing a comedy with him just
because he's a comic master. That's his
gift and he knows what he wants."

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come.
The diabolical logic in Match Point
reminds me of nothing so much as
Charles Chaplin's much-underestimat -
ed Marxist logic in Monsieur Verdoux
(1947), though Woody is less a rabid
Marxist than a resigned fatalist with
respect to the ways of the world.
And after his tabloid adventures
and his against-all-odds professional
survival, who is to say that he should-
n't be absolved of the charge of facile
cynicism?
And how does he always manage to
recruit such talented performers at
reduced rates? If that isn't magic, I
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She notes: "It was a totally different
experience. I had more direction from
Woody on that film. If he doesn't like
something in dailies, then we just go
back and shoot it again:'
One of the key plot elements of Match
Point is the part played by luck in what
happens to the film's characters. That
was one element of the film that Scarlett
very much related to.
"I feel very lucky" she says. "I look at
my job, and I think that I had a one-in-
a-million shot. I constantly recognize
that and am reminded of it everyday
when I talk to friends who said that they
waited for three hours on line for a cast-
ing call and they got to the door and it
was shut in their face.
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a little kid I was very ambitious. I was
singing and dancing and all of that
stuff. I wanted to be a performer.
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