Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steep to stand on, and in exploring underwater, with scuba gear, caves so deep that helium must be mixed with the oxygen that is breathed, to forestall nitrogen narcosis. A couple of canoeists have just lined their craft up the Grand Canyon and portaged the Rockies. An unemployed actress named Julie Ridge swam twice around Manhattan Island this summer (about 28 miles); although the publicity did not bring her a job, she said she felt better about herself...
...Actress Jill Clayburgh, 39, seems to have entered a legal phase. Two years ago, she was a Supreme Court Justice in First Monday in October. Now in Hanna K., a new political film by Director Costa-Gavrass (Z, Missing), she plays an American attorney turned Israeli citizen who takes on the controversial case of an Arab charged with persistently and illegally crossing the border into Israel. "It is an allegorical tale," says Clayburgh. Though she had little time to play tourist while filming in Israel, being virtually unknown there gave her a welcome escape from the pressures of fame. Says...
MARRIED. Mary Beth Hurt, 34, resourceful film and stage actress (The World According to Garp, Crimes of the Heart); and Paul Schrader, 37, kitschy film director (American Gigolo, Cat People); both for the second time; in Chicago...
DIED. Carolyn Jones, 50, sultry, sinuous actress who played the ghoulamorous Morticia on television's The Addams Family; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. A promising starlet whose supporting performance as a love-starved beatnik in The Bachelor Party (1957) was nominated for an Oscar, Jones left the movies in 1964 to star for two years in the TV sitcom based on Charles Addams' offbeat New Yorker cartoons...
...live among gauchos, returned to London, and learned the international grain trade. He was on the point of becoming wealthy as a grain speculator in the U.S. when the Crash of '29 bankrupted his company. His entry into the performing arts occurred simply because he had married an actress and knew a few theater people...