Word: actress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to do on my days off is sleep," insists Actress Valerie Perrine, who has been performing her own stunts in a film about a female private eye. It is called Windfall, with the emphasis on fall: jumping from a burning helicopter, Perrine sprained her ankle; in another episode, she was thrown from a horse; on location at the Grand Canyon, she got a bad case of acrophobia and fainted. Fortunately, the perils of Perrine include a few scenes best done lying down. One of her favorites is a phony rape incident, staged to inspire a rescue by Co-Star...
...cast consists, in its entirety, of the original London stage company: Rachel Roberts, an actress of daunting strength, who works hard to give Nora some of the sympathetic understanding the author neglected; and Albert Finney, a prodigious actor who is masterly at containing and then portioning out his power. His Frank is a creation of fierce bluster and desperate anger. Even while he is railing, Finney can convey -in the sidelong unease of a glance, a little twitch of uncertain anxiety-the small, sabotaging currents of helplessness and terror. Jay Cocks
...have come as a shock to some passersby to see Actress Sandy Dennis standing outside the Brooks Atkinson Theater in New York with a small cat in her arms, offering to sell it to the highest bidder. But Dennis, 39, has a thing about cats, and lives with 33 of them (guests who drop in for a visit have been known to find fur in their drinks). So when the Humane Society of New York City decided to auction off some homeless kittens, guess who was asked to be auctioneer? Dennis did fairly well, too: she sold seven cats...
Having recently spent four weeks flying around in a blimp in Black Sunday, Swiss Actress Marthe Keller, 30, had no qualms about going up in a hot-air balloon for her latest picture, Bobby Deerfield. She plays a dying woman who teaches a race-car driver to live life to the fullest. That involves not just the balloon and a racing car but a Lake Como ferryboat and an auto-train that bores through the Simplon Tunnel. Co-Star Al Pacino, 36, was not happy about having to spend two days filming in the darkness of the tunnel...
...urge to perform runs in the Travolta family. John's mother, Helen Burke, an actress in Englewood, N.J., urged all her six children to take part in local theater. As the baby of the family, John had many acts to follow. At age seven, he flew around the country with his sister Ellen in a road show of Gypsy and at twelve acted in his first amateur production. Recalls Travolta: "That world of airplanes and theaters seemed my only route to freedom." At 16, he quit school and began working in dinner theaters and summer stock. Looking back...