GIGI IN JERSEY.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 28-AUG-06

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The actress Leslie Caron, whom Gene Kelly plucked, in 1948, when she was seventeen, from the Ballets des Champs-Elysees and then shipped to Hollywood, where she pirouetted and pouted her way through several M-G-M classics, has grown accustomed, in recent years, to the silence of her telephone. "I was absolutely convinced that I couldn't act anymore," she said not long ago. "I thought, I'm this old Gigi and Lili, and I suppose I can't pretend anymore. Nobody's going to hire me."

But, recently, the call came, summoning her from her Paris home--not to Hollywood but to North Bergen, New Jersey, where the TV crime drama "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" is filmed. A tiny...

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