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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the film's 100 minutes glide by, thanks to Seymour. An actress of her caliber could probably wrap up even Lassiter-quality dialogue during lunch breaks...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Trivialities | 3/6/1984 | See Source »

...Michael Caine) and Victor Lyons (Joseph Bologna), their marriages in disarray, renting a house in Rio in order to share a vacation with their adolescent daughters. Whereupon Jennifer Lyons (Michelle Johnson, whose awkwardness may be attributed in part to the fact that she is a model rather than an actress and in part to the fact that she is required to do about half her scenes nude to the waist) seduces "Uncle Matthew." The joke-if the word can be applied here-is that she is cool and sophisticated, while he gets all flustered and furtive in a supposedly comic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Troubled Pair | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Just now the center of the Beckett universe is a pair of off-Broadway houses on Manhattan's 42nd Street. In the Harold Clurman Theater, a trio of Beckett skits has been playing since June. And last week, at the newly named Samuel Beckett Theater next door, English Actress Billie Whitelaw opened in two short plays and a reading of the Beckett short story Enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Spook Sonatas | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

...Gershwin Theater. The pocket-size review will feature four back-up dancers and an original score by Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line, They're Playing Our Song). Says MacLaine: "I'll keep dancing and singing until my legs get as low as my notes." The fiery actress is currently basking in critical and popular praise for her portrayal of Aurora, the feisty Texas mother in Terms of Endearment, a role that is expected to win her an Oscar nomination. "I figure that I've put a lot into my life," MacLaine says. "Now I'm getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 20, 1984 | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

SENTENCED. Jodie Foster, 21, screen actress (Taxi Driver, The Hotel New Hampshire), quondam journalist (Esquire, Interview), Presidential Assailant John Hinckley's love object, and Yale senior; to one year on probation and a fine of $500 in court costs after pleading guilty to possession of a small amount of cocaine found during a Customs check at Logan Airport last December; in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 13, 1984 | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

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