New York Adult Entertainment: Pfeiffer has beauty of a role
Twenty years ago she played a doe-eyed girl victimized by social predators in Dangerous Liaisons. Now, in another adaptation of French literature with the same director, she plays wealthy courtesan Lea de Lonval, who starts to feel tiny ravages of time when she shacks up with a man half her age.
Mmm, she says, contemplating these career bookends. Literally, the virgin and the whore. And everything in between, from then until now.
Born in Santa Ana, Calif., Pfeiffer was a beach bum who bagged groceries and was crowned Miss Orange County in the late 70s. She played Tony Danzas girlfriend, Suzie Q, in 1980s The Hollywood Knights. Two years later she strutted her way through Grease 2 in a pink satin jacket. No one came out of that movie looking good, which is why, rumor has it, Brian De Palma didnt want to consider her for the role of Tony Montanas cokehead girlfriend in Scarface.
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Two movies made her the superstar she insists she never intended to be. In 1989s The Fabulous Baker Boys, she stumbled into Jeff and Beau Bridges cabaret act as sarcastic call girl Susie Diamond and immortalized herself by rendering Makin Whoopee atop a grand piano.