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What a difference a year makes: Shirley the Survivor has become Shirley the Superstar. The aging sprite has ripened into the overpowering character actress. The unfocused dilettante has been redefined as the Renaissance woman. The lovable kook with the carefree sex life and oddball ideas has been transmuted into a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Year Of Her Lives | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

The atmosphere on the set was uneasy. Director James Brooks, making his first film,, derailed MacLaine just before shooting started by informing her, after two years of having her develop the character as a Texan with a thick Southern accent, that Aurora was instead a native of Boston. Says MacLaine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Year Of Her Lives | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

DIED. Diana Dors, 52, Britain's platinum-blond bombshell who was endlessly touted in the 1950s as her country's answer to Marilyn Monroe; of cancer; in Windsor, England. Like Monroe, Dors had brains and talent, but was wasted in a spate of Hollywood clunkers (I Married a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 14, 1984 | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

This book is not an academic investigation of either Irish literature or the inspiration of landscape. It is a writer's journey, a tour of places which other writers have felt affection for also, or have known excitement or alarm in.

Author: By Mark Murray, | Title: Uninspired Tourist | 5/8/1984 | See Source »

There is ample invention .in the production, but not all of it is fully realized. Cinderella is provided with a pet cat (Gil Boggs) who neatly steals all his scenes. The stepsisters, lunging around in their toe shoes, are fun at first, but they have few bits of bright business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Cinderella Goes Modern | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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