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The News and Observer, Raleigh, N.C., June 13, 1986 3B Lady with the mystic eyes draws millions The Baltimore Sun ARIS People write reguP New larly to Year wish or a her good happy Easter, like the man in Stockholm, Sweden, who simply addressed his card to "Madame Mona Lisa, the Louvre, Paris." A student from the French city of Rennes wrote to say he heard that she suffered from high cholesterol and asked that the museum send information to help him complete a study on the problem of diet. A Parisian virtually begged administrators to help him discourage a business partner from Kuwait, who did not fully understand the workings of museums but was determined to buy the painting, by saying that it was for sale but for $10 billion. A curator of painting responded i in a brief but not unfriendly letter that the Mona Lisa, perhaps the world's most famous painting, was not available at any price. Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of the woman with the enigmatic half smile and fascinating hands remains the Louvre's star attraction, the biggest drawing card of what remains probably both the largest and one of the most physically demanding museums in the world. As if it were a sort of legal minimum, visiting Paris has come to mean riding an elevator at least part of the way up the Eiffel Tower, walking in the vastness of Notre Dame and paying homage to the portrait of the calm-looking young woman amid considerable jostling among people determined to get a better look.

She has been used as a trademark for Spanish olive oil, Italian hairpins and a West Berlin restaurant called The Smile. A French fashion magazine printed her picture to illustrate the benefits of face-lifts. Several years ago a Californian named Will Ashford seeded an area near San Francisco with different varieties of grass that sprouted in such a way to re-create her image on a hillside. Buffet tempts workers in RTP Continued from page 1B early evenings. Jazz on the piano is featured every night except Sunday.

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Galleries writing that they have found an artist who embodies Leonardo's best qualities get a politely discouraging letter noting that the details of their discovery have been placed "in our file, which is already rather big." She is an enduring celebrity because of what is known of Mona Lisa's history and what remains a mystery. Art historians cite the Mona Lisa as the only portrait that unquestionably was painted by Leonardo's own hand. Disputes persist as to the identity of the model, how much time Leonardo devoted to the painting, whether the French king who recognized its qualities and wanted it for his own pleasure obtained it by purchase or as a gift from the artist himself. Mona Lisa portrays perhaps Monna Lisa Gherardini del Giocando, wife of a Florentine nobleman and in her mid-20s at the time her portrait was made. Or she was an amorous favorite of a member of the powerful Medici family.

Or she was a prostitute. At least one art historian suggests that Leonardo's model was a boy. Her unusual facial expression was noted from the time the painting was made, probably between 1506 and 1510. Wearing a headset under her big straw hat, Miss Dunfee keeps an ear on the dialogue during filming on the "Crimes" set, a two-story house transformed by carpentry and believe into an aging Victorian mansion in a tiny Mississippi hamlet. The house is a vision of run-down Southern elegance, with peeling and chipping paint and skewed shutters outside, baby pictures and doilies and antiques inside.

Nora Dunfee's job is to make sure the house's inhabitants sound equally and consistently true to the setting of Beth Henley's story, which started as a play that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981. Like the story, their accents must reflect not just the South in general, but one Mississippi town in particular. "You have to find something to make people believe in Hazelhurst, lississippi," Miss Dunfee said this week during a break from filming. "There are people who may be able to say how people talk there or show how people talk there but there's a long road between that and creativity." Off-camera, Miss Dunfee has spent hours with each of the actresses, helping them learn what the world of Babe, Meg and Lenny MaGrath would sound like. They had a guide, a cassette tape of playwright and Mississippi native Beth Henley talking about herself.

Ms. Henley also was on the set for the first two weeks, providing answers to questions like how to pronounce the word "pecan." "I think it was the very first day, someone said, 'How do you say Miss Dunfee said. "Beth was here, and I said, 'This is Ms. Henley's vote on the peecan, cahn controversy? This Mississippian says "pecahn." For the most part, though, Miss Dunfee has coached the actresses Grand Opening Special OFF SALE At Frame Warehouse we frame pictures, portraits, posters, crafts, crosstitch, photos, name it! And if you present this ad when you purchase any picture frame at Frame Warehouse you'll receive an additional savings on our already low discount prices on these framing services: Regular Glass, Dry Mounting, Backing, Custom Single-opening mats, and Contact Board. This offer is good at our location at North Market Square and also at our Chapel Hill Store.

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"You look at that painting and you see immediately that it is the street you walked on, but it's not necessarily everything on that street," she said. "It's the artist's choice. That's the way I feel about the dialect." It's hard to place the accent of Nora Dunfee, a native Pennsylvanian. Her elocution has a little bit of the Northeast, a touch of Britain, a hint of the Midwest. When she talks about Mississippi, her inflection rises, and she demonstrates another accent.

She mentions that a few of the "Crimes of the Heart" crew members call her Miss Nora. When she's talking Southern, the nickname fits. Miss Dunfee, who declined to give her age, learned about phonetics and dialect during the years after World War II, when she was working and studying at the Actors Laboratory Theater in Los Angeles. The training merely formalized what she'd picked up from 1 listening to the Irish lilt of her grandmother, said 'me this' 'me and the storytelling of her father and other kin in her hometown of Belmont, Pa. "I didn't even think of it as accents; I thought of it as people who fascinated me by the way they talked," she said.

"I didn't think of it as anything but personal eccentricities." She dialect specialist over the course of a career in acting, directing and writing plays in community theater and London venues coaching actors from local amateurs to professionals like James Earl Jones. Richard Gere and Kim Basinger used Miss Dunfee's skills this spring for the movie "No Mercy," and before that, she worked with the cast of Sam Shepard's "A Lie of the Mind" on Broadway. Some actors consider accents too risky, especially since any crowd could contain someone who really talks that way. But "I always encourage everyone, particularly those who are doubtful, to do a Miss Dunfee said. "You are born with that ear, and even if you have not used it I fully believe in getting it back." Authentic accents depend on normal breathing patterns and natural speech, she said.

Actors often become distracted when they try to learn their lines and then "put on" the dialect. Miss Dunfee, who lives in New York, started working with Miss Lange in December and with Miss Keaton in February and March on the Mississippi dialect for "Crimes of the Heart." Their challenge was to come up with characters who were real sisters alike i in many ways, idiosyncratic in others. "I would say that the way that I guided them was again that influence of gravity, and I use the word resilience a lot finding the nature of the resilience of each character. Miss Spacek's character, Babe, "is not just resilient, she's resilient-plus," Miss Dunfee said. "Sissy has a nature of expressing herself that is very strong in that direction." It will be months before the hardest jury of all Mississippians gets to judge Miss Dunfee's contributions to "Crimes." Director Bruce Beresford will be filming until early July, and the film is set for a December release.

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