Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...needed the money." The title means a $25,000 scholarship, and in addition she will earn more than $100,000 for appearances across the nation this year. Williams plays piano and French horn, won the talent competition with her singing, and wants to make it as a musical actress. The Syracuse University junior only competed in a local swimsuit contest last spring because a campus drama production folded. Since her crowning in Atlantic City, where she edged out the first runner-up, Miss New Jersey, Suzette Charles, 20, who also is black, Williams has been surrounded by chaperons and sponsors...
Daddy may be a political superstar, but Actress Patti Davis, 30, has lately been less concerned with Ronald Reagan's career than with carving out her own constituency. Her recent activities range from a stint in summer stock, where she starred in a Traverse City, Mich., production of Vanities, to a more glamorous gig posing for British Photographer Patrick Lichfield in nearly $1 million worth of diamond, emerald and platinum jewels. The idea for the photos came from Olga Rostropovich, the daughter of Conductor-Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who persuaded a gaggle of international beauties to sparkle for Lichfield. Among...
...crime photographer became ill. MacDonald, who was superficially wounded, mumbled of an attack by four hippies chanting "Acid is groovy. Acid and rain." But military investigators concluded that MacDonald had murdered his own family and to cover up had aped the Manson gang's recent grisly slayings of Actress Sharon Tate and some of her friends. At a pre-court-martial hearing half a year later, MacDonald's hustling lawyer, Bernard Segal of Philadelphia, shredded the Army's circumstantial hypothesis and the doctor was set free...
...performances, especially by Rip Torn and Dana Hill, play against the sweetness and come close to expressing the wrenching loyalties of familial love. Peter Coyote, as Rawlings' future husband, exudes steely authority from behind his gentle smile and bow tie-a humanized George Will. But Mary Steenburgen, an actress of eaglet resourcefulness, looks both too frail and too stubborn to bring Rawlings to life. One wishes Cross Creek well; one wishes even more that it were better. -By Richard Corliss
...celebrities like Christie Brinkley and it makes interesting distinctions. The first section's second page offers "Newsmakers," a column which will take you "Behind the scenes with people in the headlines." A few weeks ago, the column ran a short "behind the scenes" item under the succinct headline "Death"; "Actress Jan Clayton, who played the original Mother in the Lassie TV series, has died of cancer...