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Word: actress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington Post Columnist Roger Rosenblatt. She is, as many TV watchers know, a glamorous redhead who appears regularly in commercials for Alberto VO5 hair spray. She tosses her long locks, identifies herself as R-u-ula Lenz-z-zka and speaks of herself as though she were a famous actress. But, as the newscaster asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: A Star Is Born | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...migré count and lives in London. She was featured as a rock singer in the British TV series Rock Follies and as a character in a never released film, Queen Kong. What fascinated Lewis, who had nothing to do with the hair spray commercials, was this obscure actress's hopeful pretense of being a famous star. As a lark, he founded the Rula Lenska Fan Club-and soon found that some 600 other people were ready to join the cult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: A Star Is Born | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

DIVORCED. Peter OToole, 47, Irish actor who played the title roles in Lawrence of Arabia and Goodbye, Mr. Chips; and Sian Phillips, 46, Welsh actress who starred in television's I, Claudius; after 20 years of marriage, two children; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 27, 1979 | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...really an actress yet be cause she doesn't have the disciplines," says Barbara Claman, who has become a protective aunt to Linda. "But she's learning very fast." Linda works on dropping her accent. "I took a lesson in Southern, and all you have to do is draw out those words," she says. "I could do a middle-class kid, but I'll never be one. Maybe when I'm 95 and married." She will be 18 this month, but it is not just her 4-ft. 10-in. height that makes her seem younger; her emotions have only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood's Whiz Kids | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...King Vidor's The Crowd, and Jackie Cooper in Vidor's The Champ, kids in those days were usually required to unbottle buckets of maple syrup. Think about the death of Rhett Butler's be loved Bonnie Blue in Gone With the Wind. The little actress, Cammie King, is such a vision of hatefulness in her taffeta gowns, ringlets that curl like maypoles and a voice full of squiggles, that one feels less sympathy at her demise than at the death of her pony. The animal is shot for throwing her, but ascends to equine heaven with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Brats and Perfect People | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

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