Word: actor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hurt Reynolds, actor, on the absence of his mustache: "I do look less sexy. Now I look like I make love in the bedroom and not on the living room floor...
MARRIED. Jaclyn Smith, 33, dark-maned heroine of TV's adventure series Charlie's Angels; and Dennis Cole, 38, actor; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...sexual custom, no oddity of language or quirk of lore seems to have escaped his attention. Now he displays his wit and erudition in an extravagant three-volume work that has no precedent and is not likely to have successors. The Annotated Shakespeare has no restrictions; it suits the actor and the scholar, the general reader and the child. Its pictures are copious but never merely decorative. Some 4,200 illustrations compare ancient productions with those of Laurence Olivier and Marlon Brando. Woodcuts from Holinshed's Chronicles, which Shakespeare ransacked for his plots, jostle with faded maps...
...fringes that Paradise Alley becomes interesting. Kevin Conway, as a James Cagney-inspired hood, brings savage, roughhouse wit to some incidental barroom scenes. In the expendable role of a has-been black wrestler, Frank McRae is a knockout. Though playing a slow-witted loser without money or friends, this actor retains a delicate sense of dignity. His two brief scenes carry more emotional weight than all the rest of Paradise Alley...
...only thing disappointing in all this is the portrayal of Superman himself. Randy Stone stands out as the least successful figure in the show. His ingenuous good looks fit him perfectly to the role physically; however, as an actor he makes little differentiation between his treatment of characters Clark Kent and Superman. He plays both roles with a basically boring country-bumpkin naivete...