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The movie Tess, the saga of that Hardy girl as seen through the eye of Director Roman Polanski, will not premier until October in Paris. Already, however, it seems to have created a new starlet: German-born Nastassja Kinski, 18, a dark and darting-eyed ingenue who plays Tess as "innocent, generous and pure." Kinski admits that people warned her about Polanski's reputation as a seducer of young girls, but, she says, "I have blind confidence in him. On the set, he opens himself to you completely. He can draw things out of you you didn't know were there."
On the Record
Robert Grey, State Department technology specialist, assuring Australians they can keep their Skylab pieces: "We are hardly in a position to be demanding."
Charles Foster, FAA associate administrator, on DC-10 maintenance: "Maybe you can run an old Ford in sloppy condition, but a big jet is more like a sophisticated Jaguar. If you have a Jaguar, you have to build it right and maintain it right."
Sandy Duncan, actress, on why she thinks Washingtonians will like Peter Pan, in which she plays the title role: "I think they deal highly in fantasy here."
Patrick Nugent, estranged husband of L.B.J.'s daughter Luci and former Johnson radio station executive, on his new gas station outside Austin: "I could stand more business."