Word: actor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Lucie, 27, graduated from playing her mother's daughter on Ball's TV show Here's Lucy to leads onstage and in films. She has also published some song lyrics and seemed the natural choice to play the lyricist to Actor Robert Klein's songwriter in Neil Simon's new play, They're Playing Our Song. So Simon said after trying out 300 other actresses for the role. The critics agreed when the comedy opened a pre-Broadway run in Los Angeles. Mother agreed too. Said Ball...
...swamp scene was by no means the most complicated. The script calls for a Hollywood talent scout (played by a hu man actor, Dom DeLuise) who has strayed into the swamp to paddle by, discover Kermit and show him a copy of Variety that contains, by chance, an ad urging "all frogs who want to become rich and famous" to come to Hollywood. But down the road lurks Doc Hopper (played by Charles Durning), who wants this particular talented frog to shill for his fast-food chain, which specializes in French fried frogs' legs. Kermit encounters all of his Muppet...
Having played Dracula on Broadway, Actor Frank Langella is now in Cornwall, sinking his teeth into the same role for a film. Although the movie will have a different script, approach, director, cast and special effects, Langella wants to maintain his conception of the role of the sanguineous count. Dracula, he feels, has been misunderstood. "I don't play him as a hair-raising ghoul," says Langella. "He is a nobleman, an elegant man, with a very difficult problem...
...play. It's a play of the spirit," says Actor Eli Wallach of The Diary of Anne Frank. In an off-Broadway production opening Dec. 28, Wallach plays the father of the Jewish family that hides from the Nazis in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months during World War II. The mother is Anne Jackson, Wallach's real-life wife, and the Frank daughters are played by Wallachs as well. "You're comfortable with your own family, so it's easier," says Katherine, 20, who hopes for a career as a cafe chanteuse and plays Margot...
...Rowlands) a showy "100% muskrat" coat. As the gang's detonation expert, Warren Gates has a hell of a fine time: throughout the film he launches into deliriously obsessive speeches about imagined World War II combat adventures. The other principals, Peter Boyle, Paul Sorvino and Allen Goorwitz (the actor formerly known as Allen Gar field), all have their own amusing quirks. It's not their fault that Falk and Gates sometimes reduce them to underemployed straight...