Word: cara
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into the predictable heartbreak and unlikely triumphs of show biz. Sister (Lonette McKee) is the eldest, beautiful, with a fatal instinct for the wrong kind of man. Dolores (Dwan Smith) is vaguely uneasy about everything, whether it is performing or walking down the Harlem streets. Sparkle, the youngest (Irene Cara), is the most innocent, and perhaps the most talented. Under the tutelage of a good fellow named Stix (Philip M. Thomas), who also loves her, Sparkle works her way from a hit record to a solo spot at Carnegie Hall...
...first feature, has photographed much of the film in close, with the light kept low. The intimate style is effective, and it helps somewhat to disguise budgetary limitations. Sparkle was made for lunch money, and it shows. What shows more prominently, though, is the distinctive charm of Actors Thomas, Cara and McKee, and the promise of a new director who managed things better than could realistically have been expected...
Hicks captured 43,164 votes followed by incumbents Christopher A. Ianella, Lawrence S. Di Cara '71, Albert L. O'Neil, Joseph Tierney, Gerald F. O'Leary, and Frederick C. Langene. Newcomer Thomas M. Connolly Jr. and incumbent Patrick F. McDonough finished in eighth and ninth place...
Insofar as this play has a psycho logical terrain, it is limbo. Symbolically, a spiral staircase on the stage ends in midair, leading nowhere. Two actors a brother (Michael York) and a sister (Cara Duff-MacCormick) have been deserted by the rest of their company on a tour of some unnamed country. In panic they improvise "The Two Character Play," a misty memory of a long-past family life in a southern U.S. city that culminated in the murder of their mother by their father and his suicide...
...large cast is uniformly good, and they seem to be having a good time with their roles. Particularly enjoyable are Janice Rule, who writhes prettily on a fluffy bedroom rug trying to get her bored husband (Richard Crenna) to give her a tumble; Carroll O'Connor and Cara Williams, whose fractured marriage, at film's end, seems destined to survive some severe bouts of alcoholism; and John Colicos as the homicidally inclined brain surgeon who provides one of the nicest pieces of sneering screen villainy since Richard Widmark pushed the old lady down the stairs in Kiss...