Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ali dismisses all this. "I'm not hungry enough to be a star," she says. "Or even an actress." She doesn't have to be hungry or an actress. She just has to stand there, and people buy tickets. The clean-boned, finishing-school face, the large, liquid eyes that cannot express doubt, the barely upholstered model's body, the metallic purr?that is not standard
...course, the film is a phenomenon ?there has been nothing like it in a generation. And nothing like its star, Ali MacGraw, to remind the world of the kind of stars that used to glisten in Hollywood...
Even offscreen, she seems to have been scripted by a nostalgic romanticist. She grew up in New York's Westchester County, amid acres of woods that looked like backdrops for Burne-Jones paintings. Ali lived like one of the foreground figures. "We had rather little money," she recalls. "My parents were artists; for Christmas, my mother used to make me things like a doll's house with chandeliers and wallpaper inside, and dresses for the dolls. In the winter, my brother Dick and I sat in front of the fireplace and talked with my father, surrounded by books. We were...
...amalgam of drive and IQ earned her another scholarship?to Wellesley. The gangly figure ungangled and the crooked teeth began to straighten. The boys started turning around when she passed, and the empty social calendar was soon crammed. There was still no money: during her freshman summer Ali waited on tables at the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall hotel in Atlantic City. Brother Dick remembers the pretty 18-year-old with the Irish temper simmering on the back burner. "To me, she really became a human being the time she was waiting on a table with a great bunch of waitress-kidders...
...sophomore year, Ali won Mademoiselle's guest-editor contest; the regulars on the magazine referred her to the Ford modeling agency. But "by the end of my junior year," Ali remembers, "I had gained too much weight for modeling. I didn't care." In 1960 she graduated and?just like Jennifer Cavilieri in Love Story?married her Harvard beau. It lasted a year and a half. "We were children," she says. "We didn't have anything to say to each other except pleasantries...