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| • | "Huge, brown, baby eyes shine as she gazes from below (her head is about level with my chest - how did it get there?) and pleads, her Spanish/ French/ oddly Belgian accent askew: can she smoke? Would I mind? A 'horrible habit', she knows, but she must, OK? ... A waiter has found an ashtray. She drags on her cigarette fiercely ... She stubs out her cigarette, offers the pack, tosses it on the sofa. Her body language is working fine now. She searches through her jacket for matches ... She inhales, exhales, wreathes that permanently amused face in fog", The Independent (UK), Feb. 8, '96 |
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| • | "curled up on a couch in a Beverly Hills hotel suite, clad like the sexiest Easter chick you ever saw in skin-tight yellow pants and hot pink blouse, chain-smoking Camel Lights with a seductive grace that makes you want to flick your Bic for her", San Jose Mercury News, Mar. 13, '96 |
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| • | "Victoria Abril needs a cigarette - desperately. Sitting in the restaurant of a Park City, Utah, hotel, the Spanish actress fidgets in her chair, taps her fingers on the table and stares at the no smoking signs that surround her.", "Abril retreats to her hotel room where she can relax and smoke in private", "lighting another cigarette", Cincinnati City Beat, Mar. 14-20, '96
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| • | re: Sundance Film Festival: "'The only people on the street are the smokers, like the homeless,' she complained of her inability to light up. 'I'm frustrated.", US Weekly, Apr. '96, p. 16 |
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| • | "her upper lip tells of decades of serious smoking ... She pauses to gratefully accept a lit cigarette from her make-up artist, sucks greedily on its tip ... Called back to work, Abril runs, heels clattering, across the set, smoking furiously", Sunday Times (UK), Jun. 3, '01 |