Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victim was Rebecca Schaeffer, 21, a rising actress who co-starred in the CBS series My Sister Sam and is featured in the current movie Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. Arrested for her murder in Tucson the next day was Robert John Bardo, 19, a former fast-food restaurant worker. Authorities describe him as "an obsessive fan of Miss Schaeffer...
...days. Increasingly they have seen that the most fervent admirers can turn into crazed attackers. The problem has become more evident since the beginning of the decade, when Mark David Chapman killed John Lennon and John Hinckley shot President Ronald Reagan in a bizarre bid for the affection of actress Jodie Foster. There has been a rash of ugly episodes, some murderous, some merely distressing...
...beneath the arrogance he wears like a badge of honor is the deeper, profound racial anger that fueled Do the Right Thing. "Racism usually erodes self-confidence. It seems to have triggered his," observes actress Ruby Dee, who plays Mother Sister in Do the Right Thing. The Howard Beach incident, in which a black man died after being chased onto a freeway by a white mob -- an expression in Lee's mind of a double standard inflicted on blacks -- inspired the film. Even the controversy that erupted over his use at the end of the film of a Malcolm...
Vogueing pranced a step or two nearer the mainstream last week. The houses of Extravaganza and Magnifique, among others, strutted their stuff at the venerable Roseland Ballroom for a show sponsored by the Design Industries Foundation for AIDS. Among the crowd present: the Talking Heads' David Byrne, actress Gwen Verdon and real fashion model Iman. Said the evening's master of ceremonies, David Ian Extravaganza: "I never thought I'd see the day when we'd be doing this downtown." Well, no; but, then again, don't dance off to California either, David. Vogueing has not yet arrived...
...addition to Reeve and Murray, actress Stockard Channing, writer Brian Doyle Murray, actress Kathryn Walker and and actress Frances West read from the anthology...