"I was too early for Star Wars, too late for 2001," David Bowie said as he sat on an empty orange crate in West Berlin, where Just A Gigolo was being shot. "It's not very profitable nor very rewarding in terms of thanks, to be ahead of your time." Bowie was well into his latest

reincarnation, one radical step removed from the Thin White Duke persona he assumed a few years back, upon dropping his Ziggy Stardust and Space Oddity roles. He professed to be more actor than singer, even though he has embarked on his first cross-country American tour in a few years. "It'll be good to get back," he

confessed, as though he might be criticized for this utterance. "I miss the vitality...Europe is so much older; it's like visiting an old aunt: it's nice to see the old dear once in a while and maybe dress up in her clothes, but after, it's good to get back home, to the mess and the noise."