The following article
is from US MAGAZINE,
Dec 26 1988 - Jan 9, 1989
It could have seemed
like a stupid pet trick. Instead, Ron Perlman turned Vincent,
the fairy-tale prince of "Beauty and the Beast," into a full-fledged
romantic hero. Beneath the face of the Cowardly Lion, Vincent
has the refinement of Noel Coward. And unlike most TV sex symbols,
he favors chaste embraces over car chases. Though the show finished
56th in the ratings last season, it won 12 Emmy Nominations and impresses
network execs with its intensely loyal - and - almost entirely female
- audience.
"Women seem to want to protect the
Beast," offers Perlman, 38. "He evokes a relationship that I think
a lot of women long for, and that can only exist in a fantasy world."
Perlman, who's married and has a daughter,
has hidden his face beneath makeup before (Quest for Fire, The
Name of the Rose). He says it's all in the eyes - those kind,
noble eyes. And in '89, he promises, "We're going to see more of the
poet in Vincent." Sounds perfectly Beast-ly.
