Word: beards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Close, 36, a tall figure with a patriarchal beard, works very slowly, his air brush patiently rendering each microform of flesh and hair like a polyp secreting coral. Each painting takes months to finish, and since 1970 Close has finished only 18 of them. Thus any show by him is an event of interest, and his current one at New York's Pace Gallery is no disappointment. It consists of three large heads - one of Close himself, two of his friends in the art world - and a group of studies and drawings for them. Self-portrait and Klaus...
Since leaving Saturday Night Chase, 33, has acquired both a California tan and a new wife. She is Jacqueline Carlin, 28, a TV actress who is no relation to Comedian George Carlin, says Chevy, "except for the beard." Despite the couple's hideaway in the Hollywood hills, Chase is homesick for New York City. "I came out in October and I've been here four years," he grumbled about L.A. "There is no input from anything but show biz out here. I feel like the brain starts to atrophy...
...RELAXED Alan Rudolph eased his slim frame into the booth of a Cambridge restaurant and opened up a press get-together by brimming an empty beer glass with a local label. Sporting a neat beard and looking like a handsome Paul Simon without the emerging pate, Rudolph gazed out at the assembled journalists with all the aplomb of a seasoned schlepper of the talk show-press conference circuit who knows that this time around, he's got something special to market. And so it is with the 32-year old director; in Rudolph's case however, his heady success...
...Star is Born Barbra Streisand has her usual role of the nice Jewish singer (this time named Esther Hoffman, not Fanny Brice) who falls in love with a rogue. Kris Kristofferson's beard takes the place of Omar Sharif's moustache. Tony Orlando even has a small part, but this time, he did not bring Dawn or Gerald Ford with him. Kris plays John Norman Howard, a raunchy, alcoholic rock musician on the way down. Kris wants to go back to the ranch and leave the pressured world of tours, promotions and shows but with Esther's career rising...
...estranged couple, who enjoy picnicking on each other when they're not feeding on themselves. Champion carries off the complex part of Henry--torn between his lusts of the moment and his fierce passion for immortality--with an enviable ease. His inflections, his mannerisms, even his blond beard are all just right...