Emma Thompson, A Perfect Actress For E.M. Forster; The Very Un-Hollywood `Howards End' Star

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19920426
Author:Judith Weinraub

The well-dressed couple at the Willard Hotel coffee shop is reticent about stopping the casually elegant and sort-of familiar woman passing their table. They know it's an intrusion, but she doesn't look formidable.

Could she possibly be "that actress in `Dead Again' "?

"Ah yes - you saw it," she replies with a smile.

No movie star preening. No backing away in horror. Just civilized conversation.

That's Emma Thompson. Accessible. Well-mannered. A knockout but somehow normal-looking. Surely one of the few actresses on the 70mm screen to graduate from Cambridge University. And ...

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