Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hubby's heavyweight fortune, Felder told the press that Robin sought no money from the divorce. But less than a month later, he filed a $125 million libel suit against Tyson on her behalf. The reason? The champ was quoted in the New York Post lambasting the actress and her mother as, among other things, "the slime of the slime." Says Felder, with some glee: "This is the highest- profile divorce ever. We're getting hate mail...
...million drama about the FBI's search for the murderers of Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney, has arrived with critical trumpets leading the way and bitter controversy in its wake. It has already won National Board of Review citations for best picture, best actor (Gene Hackman) and best supporting actress (Frances McDormand) -- prizes the film may duplicate on Academy Award night. For Mississippi Burning is made to Oscar's order: a white-heat yarn that illuminates, with fiery rhetoric at a lightning pace, one crucial chapter in American history...
...newcomer to town, captivatingly played by film star Jean-Marc Barr (The Big Blue). Redgrave's competitor for the young man's attentions is the dizzy belle (Julie Covington). All three are compelling. Redgrave, her heartbreaking vulnerability ever mingled with steely determination, reinforces her reputation as perhaps the greatest actress in the English-speaking world. Williams said that the theme of all his plays is how society destroys the sensitive nonconformist. In Hall's gifted hands, that destruction becomes unforgettable...
...racked and brilliant as the man who created him. Marlow, who relishes the cheap irony that his name echoes that of Raymond Chandler's famed sleuth, is a failed novelist hitting 50 with a terrifying thud. His career has been sidetracked by illness and bile. His marriage to an actress (Janet Suzman) is just an awful memory. He lies in a London hospital with psoriatic arthritis, a crippling condition of the skin and bones. The pain and the pain-killers force Marlow's mind down strange old country lanes and treacherous culs-de-sac. Figures from the past make cameo...
Loos began as an actress in her father's theater in California and began selling scenarios to D.W. Griffith's Biograph Company. From there, Loos went on to compile one of the most impressive writing resumes of any woman this century. In addition to Gentlemen, Loos was responsible for the screen versions of San Francisco and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn as well as Douglas Fairbanks' early silent classics...