Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aesthetic challenge as well. Says Actor David Purdham, who has recorded some 30 authors, from William F. Buckley Jr. to Taylor Caldwell: "You do all the characters. You use different accents. I've been Eisenhower and Khrushchev. It's reviving what I call the theater of the mind." Actress Glenn Close, who has recorded the children's book Sarah, Plain and Tall, concurs, "I find it challenging. You have to play five or six different parts, and you have to give a real sense of storytelling. I was raised by a mother who read to us every night. I cherish...
...stage with the American Ballet Theatre before a benefit audience brimming with celebrities, including Nancy Reagan. One highlight of the festivities was provided by Rudolf Nureyev, 48, the Paris troupe's artistic director, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, 38, his counterpart at A.B.T. The two Soviet-exile superstars joined French-born Actress Leslie Caron in a nostalgic recreation of dances from her movie musicals. The evening's host was another symbol of Franco-American cooperation, Gene Kelly, who starred in An American in Paris with Caron 35 years ago. Vive l'ensemble...
...then there was the courtroom drama. The confessions of von Bulow's ex-mistress and soap opera actress Alexandra Isles. The detective work of Sunny's maid Maria Schrallhammer, who it seems hated von Bulow with a passion. The Old Testament fury with which Sunny's children by a previous marriage pursued von Bulow...
Most women can only dream of leading a life as glamorous as hers, but these days Nastassja Kinski's dearest wish is to be an ordinary mom. Once the darling of the jet-set whirl, the lissome actress has been living quietly near Geneva with Ibrahim Moussa, her husband of 1 1/2 years, and their two children, Aljosha, 2, and Sonia Leila, 3 months. Kinski has no plans to resume her movie career for the time being. Instead, she watches over her children, occasionally flying to Rome, where Moussa is co-producing a 90-min. made-for- TV movie directed...
...they see you on TV, you're not doing your job. When my colleagues ask me why I'm giving so many speeches, I can say it's your own damn fault for voting TV in." On the other hand, the wavy- haired and matinee-idol-handsome John Warner (Actress Elizabeth Taylor's ex-hubby) proclaimed with virtuous self-denial, "I will not start combing my hair or wear red ties. I shall remain the shaggy renegade character I've always been...