When Slate asked in 2023 whether the star of Only Murders in the Building was a comedy genius or the most annoying actor on the planet, the response was swift. “Martin Short is a comedIC genius. End of story,” Ben Stiller posted on X. “Hard to believe people are actually debating whether or not Martin Short is funny. Newsflash: He is HILARIOUS.” Mark Hamill declared. They were far from the only celebrities to rally behind the actor in response to an article titled Why We Keep Putting Up with Martin Short?, in which critic Dan Kois described the actor as “exhausting and unfunny.”

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“From our balcony I used to watch a very beautiful girl who would go to the pool every afternoon to swim a little and sunbathe. I remember that golden skin because at the time she seemed the most beautiful creature I had ever seen.” This is how Demi Moore describes in her memoir Inside Out. My Story her first encounter with Nastassja Kinski (Berlin, 1961). The very young German actress had arrived in the United States under the wing of Roman Polanski, whom she had met at a party in Munich. Fascinated by her beauty, he found in her the ideal actress to play the lead in the film adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel Tess of the d’Urbervilles, a role that had been planned for his wife Sharon Tate, who was brutally murdered by members of Charles Manson’s sect in 1969.

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