Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot summary can do the movie or the book justice--but suffice it to say it makes following soap operas seem like child's play. Charly (Diane Keaton) is an American actress in England with romantic yearnings for a cause. When she goes to hear a speech by a bemasked and decidedly debonair PLO member, Charly falls hard for him and only slightly less hard for his message. A part in a wine commercial brings her to the island of Mykonos where--surprise, surprise--she meets up with the handsome terrorist...
...Charly, the flightly, tough-on-the-outside-soft-on-the-inside actress, Keaton is wonderful. Minus Woody Allen and Warren Beatty who tend to upstage her, Keaton's performance is genuinely fresh and appealing. Her ditzyness, which was overdone in Annie Hall and Manhattan, is put to good use here. When the Israelis draft her to drive a car wired with tons of explosives, she accidentally puts it into reverse and crashes into a tree at top speed, much to the amusement of her hardened Israeli cohorts, who haven't had this much fun in years. Even terrorists have...
...program ranged from "M*A*S*H's Mike Farrell describing the fates of political prisoners in Salvador, to actress Susan Apse in reacting a story about a sadistic Latin American colonel who serve human eats as in aid dinner treat to his guests...
Like the book, the movie leaves the viewer trying to tamp down an ungrateful feeling of boredom and impatience. In recounting the story of how an unhappy and unsuccessful repertory actress named Charlie (Diane Keaton) is recruited and trained by an Israeli intelligence team to penetrate a Palestinian terrorist organization in order to kill its leader, Director George Roy Hill (The World According to Garp, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) matches Le Carré's heavy spirit. He is a careful workman who does an honest day's labor for an honest dollar, but he lacks...
...then turned many of them into successful movies, and who was also responsible for the first appearances on Broadway of Play wrights Peter Shaffer (Five Finger Exercise, 1959) and Harold Pinter (The Caretaker, 1961); of a stroke; in New York City. Brisson was married for 35 years to Actress Rosalind Russell, until her death...