Personal Mariel

Personal MarielIt began, interestingly enough, when writer-director Robert Towne saw a picture in a magazine of Mariel Hemingway jumping on a trampoline. He was looking for someone to star in his production of Personal Best, and he was convinced that acting talents were not enough to bring off the role. "Films about athletes have never really captured what athletics is truly about--which is movement," he explained. "And I'd been told that Mariel was a cross-country skier and a goo...