Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...actors, Tim Smith and Ron Schachter, and one actress, Sarah Jane Cohen, deserve recognition for the ease with which they slipped from one characterization into another. These three actors show the ability to portray a multitude of characters within the WASP live...
There were no real surprises. One of the women from the year's three farm movies (Country, The River and Places in the Heart) was almost certain to be named Best Actress. And one of them was: Sally Field, for her role as the struggling widow in Places in the Heart. Best Supporting Actress went to the almost inevitable choice, Peggy Ashcroft, a wonderful English stage star who has infrequently been seen on film, for her performance as Mrs. Moore in A Passage to India. The night's few authentic moments included Dr. Haing S. Ngor, who survived torture...
BORN. To Shelley Long, 35, actress who stars as a bar waitress in the Emmy Award-winning series Cheers; and her husband Bruce Tyson, 32, Santa Monica, Calif., money manager: a daughter, their first child; in Los Angeles. Two days earlier, Long's costar and fellow Cheers waitress, Rhea Perlman, 36, also gave birth in New York City to a daughter, the second child for her and Actor Husband Danny DeVito, 40, star of TV's rerunning Taxi and films (Romancing the Stone). Perlman's character, Carla, became pregnant for this TV season, but Long's Diane, hidden by camera...
Clara Peller first cried, "Where's the beef?" for Wendy's a year ago. The diminutive octogenarian actress made the phrase a part of the language and helped Wendy's sales jump 31% last year, to $945 million, at the company's 3,095 fast-food restaurants worldwide. She will ask the question no more, at least for Wendy's. The firm decided last week to end its relationship with Peller. Reason: she made a commercial for Campbell's Prego Plus Spaghetti Sauce in which she says, "I found...
Ralph: Reagan was an entertainer when he sold us all those products, Wanda. If Gerry were an actress, a tennis star or a famous guitar banger, no one would mind if she put her prestige behind miracle toilet-bowl cleaners and remedies for the heartbreak of psoriasis--at least if she dropped all the piety about women's choices and just rolled up her sleeves and sold the stuff...