Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lisa Bonet is a remarkable screen presence, though an uninteresting actress, in the underwitten role of Epiphany Proudfoot. However, considering how ruthlessly she is defiled publicly for the enjoyment of the audience, one wonders why she would ever have accepted the role. The film's climax is also surprisingly effective, if only because it gives some meaning to the previous one and a half hours...
Then in 1968, one of Warhol's hangers-on -- a crazed actress named Valeria Solanis -- shot and wounded him with a .32. Neither his health nor his talent would fully recover. There had been one Warhol before the shooting; another would emerge after it. The former had been the onlooker, both fascinated and wounded by media culture and its power to dictate desire and nostalgia. You could not look at early Warhol (Marilyn-as-virgin, in full drag-queeny apotheosis on a gold ground; Golgotha, envisioned in repeated views of an $ execution chamber with its electric chair and its sign...
...perhaps feeling that never again will she have such an exciting job as her assignment with North. "She felt she was at the vortex of history," says a friend. Her life is not likely to settle down just yet, however. Fawn is in sudden demand as a model, and Actress Farrah Fawcett has called with plans to portray her in a movie. Let's see, Ryan O'Neal could play Arturito, Cliff Robertson could be Oliver North...
...commemoration of all she has given and, lately, received, the world's top singer-dancer-comedian-songwriter-actress-author-survivor-thriv er-dynamo- divinity deserves some special prize. The Tony isn't tony enough. The Nobel Prize wouldn't be noble enough. And so to you, Bette Midler, the academy of your admirers is pleased to present its Life Achievement Award for the body of your work. And the work of your body...
...actress-singer orchestrates her vocal versatility and preternatural empathy to slip inside the spirit of each song. Performing the title tune from The Rose, the lovely mantra of regeneration that has become Bette's Over the Rainbow, she sings in her own haunting alto. But she can go seductively nasal for E Street Shuffle, chicly bonkers for Twisted, brassy and clinging for her evocations of the low-biz Songstresses Vicki Eydie and Dolores DeLago. Midler's most powerful number, Stay with Me (best heard on the sound-track album of her 1980 concert film, Divine Madness), is the plea...