Word: actress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play relying so heavily in both form and content on the power of words to have such an actor and actress in lead roles suggests a failure in direction as well. Valerie Lester's approach to the play is impeccably traditional: not necessarily a flaw, but once more emphasizing the language which is beyond the performers. Lester's pacing of the mostly uncut script is smooth and well-jointed, and a few nice touches--like a drum beat behind the duel scene--relive the general disarray a bit. Her failure lies in the casting of the show...
...keep score, watch for the awful fashions and the stilted soliloquies of acceptance. But this year, beneath the usual wisecracks and show business sentimentality, there was more interesting drama. Jane Fonda, anathematized for years because of her radical politics and trip to Hanoi during the war, won the Best Actress award for her role in Coming Home, an antiwar film focused sympathetically on the suffering of wounded American veterans. (Fonda, who is relentless, gave half of her acceptance speech in sign language "because there are 14 million deaf people in this country." New York Daily News Critic Rex Reed wrote...
DIVORCED. Liza Minnelli, 33, sparkle-eyed film actress and singer (Cabaret; New York, New York); and Jack Haley Jr., 45, movie producer (That's Entertainment.') and television executive; after 4 years of marriage; in Los Angeles...
...world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every few years," says Spielberg, 31, who neither smokes, drinks, nor touches all those drugs that are served like hors d'oeuvres at Hollywood parties. But then Spielberg and his live-in companion for the past three years, Actress Amy Irving (Voices), hardly ever go out. Most of the time they stay in their house in Coldwater Canyon, and when they do eat out, they like ordinary junk food. Spielberg turns up his nose at "quality pizza," for example. "I like pizza that curls at the edge like Aladdin...
MARRIED. Rod Stewart, 34, roistering British rock star with a penchant for blonds, including Actress Britt Ekland, who sued him for more than $15 million after they separated; and Alana Collins Hamilton, 33, a blond actress divorced from Actor George Hamilton; he for the first time, she for the second; in Beverly Hills...