Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pretty in pictures, she is prettier in person. Critic Pauline Kael's phrase, "charismatic normality," has Molly nailed. The charisma sets her apart as the one young movie actress who can set teens queueing at the box office--though typically, in today's fragmented pop culture, she remains virtually unknown to anyone over 30--and whose punk-flapper fashion sense is imitated by thousands of "Ringlets," her very own girl groupies. They pay tribute by dyeing their hair orange (as she does, from her natural dark reddish brown), smearing lipstick from nose to chin and dressing in Molly's unique...
...Wonderland; at six, a preacher's child in Truman Capote's The Grass Harp; at eight, she did a guest appearance on TV's The New Mickey Mouse Club; then, at nine, the role of Kate in the West Coast production of Annie. Molly's promise as an actress, and Bob's search for better jazz bookings, brought the Ringwald family to Los Angeles and their San Fernando Valley home. She snagged a continuing role in Norman Lear's girls' school sitcom, The Facts of Life, but was cut after the first year. "I was devastated," Molly says...
...maybe, she wants to turn Hughes off. Molly can hardly regret being made a star in successful comedies written by a man who enjoyed playing both Svengali and pal to a gifted young actress. But gratitude does not mean indentured servitude. "When John moved from Chicago to L.A. after The Breakfast Club," she says, "he changed. I wouldn't say he 'went Hollywood,' but he started looking very GQ. I don't really see him anymore. I still respect him a lot, and if he gave me a good script, I'd read it. But I don't think...
...story would make a remarkable screenplay. A famous movie director and his popular actress wife are abducted in Hong Kong by thugs working for a dictator's son, who wants the stars to add some luster to his own film productions. They refuse to help him and are locked up for five years. Finally, they concoct an escape plan that calls for them to play the role of their lives. They agree to make the dictator's propaganda films, but then at the first opportunity they escape to the West through Vienna with $2.3 million of the dictator's money...
Those were the amazing adventures of South Korean Movie Director Shin Sang Ok and his actress wife Choi Un Hui. Or at least that is what they told the press last week, when the pair suddenly surfaced in the U.S. Some skeptics who have followed the saga, however, openly wondered whether the tale was a little too strange even for fiction...