Word: cameo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of life, something we must learn to accept, as some of us must learn to accept such happier but equally haphazard gifts-a brief romance, a sweet spring day. The comparison here must be to Love Story, in which mortality was dragged onstage-like Lord Olivier making a cameo appearance-to lend spurious dignity to an otherwise tacky enterprise...
Womack's image will move across the silver screen tonight at the Central Square Cinema, when he makes a cameo appearance in the popular 1974 film "Badlands," starring Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen and Warren Oates...
These modern-day Sister Carries are the stars of a new genre of soap-opera fiction that has been leapfrogging from the pages of one metropolitan daily to another. Featuring young singles and written with a local background that often includes real people in cameo roles. the serials are pure whipped cream in a paper's usual menu of views and service features. "One of the reasons we started Probity," explains Des Moines Tribune Managing Editor Drake Mabry, "was to broaden the appeal of the paper to a part of the audience we're not reaching...
...hour TV-movie serial, might have been easy for other reasons as well. Now cast as the wife of an overly ambitious businessman, Peters played real-life wife for 14 years to Industrialist Howard Hughes, no second banana when it came to ambition. "It's a cameo role," concedes the actress, who still collects $50,000 each year as part of her 1971 divorce settlement from Hughes. "I'm older now and not as adventurous. A small part satisfies...
...Jaws. The major differences are that the location has been changed from the ocean to a national forest, and the character in the title role shambles instead of swims. The original has been copied even down to minor details. Jaws Author Peter Benchley, for instance, had a cameo role in the film as a television newscaster. Here, Co-Scenarist Harvey Flaxman shows up as a reporter, pressing Hero Christopher