Word: bisset
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are two movies going on here. In one of them, a sober and artistically respectable novelist named Liz Hamilton (Jacqueline Bisset) fights several decades of writer's block to emerge, finally, as an archetype of contemporary feminist dissatisfactions. In the other film, her best friend and worst rival, Merry Noel Blake (Candice Bergen), is a sort of magnolia-dipped Judith Krantz. She writes money-making trash and leads a life to match her art. She does not end up any happier than her pal, but she certainly has more...
...Acquaintance (1943) was a movie about friendship, but that did not stop Co-Stars Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins from feuding on the set. The cast of Rich and Famous, Director George Cukor's remake of the film, is truer to its spirit. Jacqueline Bisset, 36, who has the Davis role of a brainy novelist, and Candice Bergen, 34, who plays a housewife turned bestseller queen, are in fact acting like old acquaintances. "We never worked together before, but Candice is terrific," Bisset gushes. "We've become great friends." Of course, Davis and Hopkins probably did not have...
Since it began July 21, the strike has halted work on about 50 TV series and more than 20 films, including those being shot on location. The cast and crew of MGM's Rich and Famous, starring Candice Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset, were called home from Manhattan. MTM Enterprises, which had finally been persuaded to shoot an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati in Cincinnati, was forced to stop after only two days. "It took us three years to get them here," wailed Mari Barnum, Ohio firm bureau manager. "If we run into weather problems after the strike is over...