Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marina del Rey, home to 10,000 pleasure craft, a young single man was smitten by a young single woman. His occupation: photographer. Her occupation: secretary-actress. Several rounds of tequila preceded her confession that she liked to get "a little kinky" sometimes. The photographer had no personal experience with kinkiness but lied that he had. At her apartment, she suggested that she get undressed and that he tie her up and take some pictures...
HOSPITALIZED. Liza Minnelli, 38, effervescent singer-actress; for treatment of alcohol and Valium problems; at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Minnelli's newly acknowledged difficulties evoke rueful comparisons with her mother, Judy Garland, who suffered from drug and alcohol addiction for much of her life...
...habits (Shredded Wheat for breakfast), his haberdasher (Wilkes Bashford) and his favorite restaurants (Le Central and the Tadich Grill). Some of his word gags not only time eggs but also lay them ("bumpersnickers," for the compendium of auto-born humor that he occasionally shares with readers; "LActress," for L.A. actress). But Caen comes up with more than his share of winners. He claims to have coined the word beatnik, and his elegies on the bygone charms of San Francisco are usually models of crisp journalistic prose. He has learned to take himself a little less seriously than he used...
DIED. Flora Robson, 82, versatile British character actress who graced both the London and Broadway stages and scores of films; in Brighton, England. She specialized in villainesses, including Lady Macbeth, the demoniacal Ellen Creed in Ladies in Retirement (1939), and the shoplifter in Black Chiffon (1949), but was also known for her portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I, most notably in the 1937 film Fire over England...
...sofa and chat about their crossed lives and their shared art. The talk drifts to Anna's dead mother Rakel, and in the wink of a reverie, Rakel (Ingrid Thulin) appears to Henrik, to reprise a bitter interlude from a decade before. Rakel, past her prime as an actress, has been offered a small part in one of Henrik's earlier productions of A Dream Play. She flirts and quarrels; he tries to act sympathetic. Rakel disappears, and Henrik resumes his conversation with Anna. Is the master falling in love with his star pupil? Perhaps. Will the infatuation...