Word: actress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most famous movie, "Never on Sunday" was her credo, but Melina Mercouri is now on the streets seven days a week-campaigning for election to the Greek parliament. In 1974 Actress-Activist Mercouri was defeated as a Socialist candidate from Piraeus, which includes the red-light district in her 1960 film. Back on the hustings again, she is confident of victory this time. Says Mercouri, 52: "They trust me not as a star, but rather as a woman with dynamism who knows how to fight, how to go on strike. I want to be a thorn in parliament...
Levanter's life of "blind dates" brings him into contact with a Russian actress, famous scientists, business tycoons, and small-town nymphomaniacs, each of whom occupies as fleeting a part in the novel as they do in Levanter's life...
...film's meaning, as well as its most remarkable achievement, is Huppert's performance as the heroine. Freckle-faced and slightly withdrawn, this actress creates an appealing young woman who is finally done in by her inability to articulate her feelings. The erudite null dismisses Pomme because he mistakes her silence for ignorance, and, lest we make the same error, the movie ends with the damaged and deserted Pomme staring accusingly at the audience. It is a devastating denouement?the kind we expect from heartbreak movies ?but it is not pity for the proverbial jilted heroine that is disturbing...
...view of adulthood is one that has made for some remarkable films (one thinks specifically of Truffaut), and Saurus's juxtaposition of perspectives promises to be particularly thought-provoking. Critics have been heralding soulful-eyed Ana Torrent, who plays the disillusioned daughter, as the most self-possessed child actress to come along in years, and Geraldine Chaplin as the lonely, dying mother is said to give her most mature and affecting performance...
...than he filed a $2 million complaint against Los Angeles Times Columnist Jody Jacobs. In an upcoming episode of Laugh-In, Ol' Blue Eyes goes after splashier revenge-by pouring a can of green paint (actually, dyed Cream of Wheat cereal) over a Rona Barrett lookalike. The victim: Actress June Gable, who plays a gossip-caster named Ms. Groana on the show. "He dumped this bucket of slime and let it shlunk all over me," said Gable. "Then he came down from the scaffold and said, 'Hey, babe, are you all right?' " Gable had no hard feelings...