| Helena Bonham Carter gave up higher education for a higher calling: turning on men of the world with her five-foot-three-inch pixie perfection as an actress. At seventeen, she made a splash debuting in the made-for-BBC movie A Pattern of Roses (1983), where she got her period . . . period piece, that is, and a reputation for corset-wearing carnality. Her costume (and out-of-costume) |
