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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sheedy was a bright, well-organized and lucky child who danced with the American Ballet Theater in Manhattan when she was six. At twelve she wrote and, with the help of her mother, a literary agent, sold a children's book called She Was Nice to Mice. At 14 she began acting lessons and a few years later moved on her own to Los Angeles. After a short time in the minors (McDonald's and Pizza Hut commercials) she landed a role in a daytime TV special. She is anything but a gaga post-teen now, though she is counted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Greetings to the Class of '86 | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...reaction at the time that is astonishing. Apparently feeling that it was time to prepare for independence, Helena took (pounds)25 she had won in a countrywide young-writers contest and, on her own, bought a quarter-page ad in Spotlight, a casting directory. An agent saw the ad and took on the cheeky teenager as a client...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Greetings to the Class of '86 | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Theatrical Agent Tony Rivers came right to the point: "I can't send you out as Joan Molinsky. You've got to change your name." The struggling nightclub comic did not waste a second: "Okay, I'll be Joan Rivers." The single-minded doctor's daughter from Larchmont, N.Y., helped herself to her agent's name, competitors' jokes, employers' postage stamps and free hotel rooms until her big break came on the Tonight show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: May 19, 1986 | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

...puts himself at risk, either by seducing other men's wives or by driving dangerously; a director (Saul Rubinek) whose perfect tastelessness is matched by his impenetrable egocentricity. Obviously Writer-Director Alda has not spent his spare time on television and movie sets on the phone with his agent. He has tuned in to the lunacies of his profession, and when Sweet Liberty is minding its own business--the movie business--it is on high comic ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Road of Good Intentions Sweet Liberty | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

Imagine his surprise when he arrives at her room for a more intimate encounter and finds her on the angry prowl, telephone in one hand, cigarette in the other, barking brisk, not to say obscene, instructions to her agent. Why, says Michael, you're two people. "If all I could be is two different people, I'd be out of business," she snaps back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Road of Good Intentions Sweet Liberty | 5/19/1986 | See Source »

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