Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into deciding who is crazier, the hosts or the uninvited guests. In the Act is a wickedly funny send-up of android sci-fi, featuring a voluptuous male-fantasy robot (named, naturally, Dolly) who is much nicer than any of the humans around her. In the title story, an actress in a grade-B theatrical company falls for an odd, possibly psychotic lawyer who wants to use her in a complicated revenge and moneymaking scheme. Her only onstage talent is her ability to scream convincingly; at the end, she screams for real but also for a reason impossible to guess...
...Actress Sigourney Weaver claimed a rare Oscar double nomination for best actress for Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey and best supporting actress for Working Girl...
Joining Weaver in the best actress competition were Glenn Close for Dangerous Liaisons, Jodie Foster for The Accused, Meryl Streep for A Cry in the Dark and, in her first Oscar nomination, Melanie Griffith for Working Girl...
Also nominated for best supporting actress were Joan Cusack from Working Girl, Geena Davis for The Accidental Tourist, Frances McDormand for Mississippi Burning and Michelle Pfeiffer for Dangerous Liaisons...
Clients appreciate the fact that Ovitz not only pampers them but also teaches them to become more self-sufficient. Says actress Sally Field, a CAA client: "We used to be totally helpless, talking about what lessons to take or how thin we'd got our thighs while we waited for the phone to ring. Michael encouraged me to pick up the phone and develop my own projects. He told me, 'Be your own studio...