Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT that you're a movie director looking to make money. Now imagine that a movie that brought its audience to fears and garnered all sorts of academy awards--including best actress--featured that young, attractive, and until then, fairly unknown actress. Oh yes. And imagine that she excels in crying...
...James P. Walsh meticulously outlined the Government's case with the help of flow charts and excerpts from recorded conversations printed on large posters. The defendant followed each statement intently, occasionally running a restless hand through his mane of silver hair. In the front row, his wife Cristina, actress and model, shook her head in mute exasperation at the prosecutor's charges...
...statuettes were for best picture (he co-produced Terms), best director and best screenplay adaptation, and two of his picture's stars also came in first. Shirley MacLaine was named best actress for her role as Aurora Greenway, the film's impossible but ultimately likable mother, and Jack Nicholson was chosen best supporting actor for playing Aurora's lecherous astronaut lover. The other major awards at the seemingly endless (a record 3 hr. 46 min.) ceremony went to favorites: Robert Duvall won the best actor Oscar for his role as an alcoholic country singer in Tender Mercies...
ENGAGED. Patti Davis, 31, actress daughter of President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan; and Paul Grilley, 25, Los Angeles yoga instructor, whom she met two years ago while both were taking yoga classes; in Paris. A White House announcement, issued after Davis phoned to tell her parents, confirmed widespread rumors, reported that her mother was "very happy" and noted that the nuptials would probably take place before the end of the year...
...artistic integrity Shepard says he wrote Angel City after a bad experience in an office in Hollywood and his cynical pessimism shows through every line of the script Each character in the play has a dream Lanx wants to be a boxer, Miss Scoons wants to be an actress. Tympani dreams of owning a diner And each has sold out, abandoned his integrity in order to try and claw his way to the top Money is the driving force in Angel City and any movie its inhabitants create is considered terrific as long as it sells...