Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years. For 2 1/2 years, Parker worked at a Chicago station while his wife toiled in Miami. Then Nissenson moved to New York City, where Parker joined her for a few months. He was rehired in Chicago, and she joined him. Both are ambitious, but they admit to making career sacrifices for their marriage. "Mike left a weekend anchor position in Chicago to be in New York with me, and I moved to Chicago with a pay cut," acknowledges Mary, who says she has no regrets. "When I'm 60, there isn't anybody in broadcasting who will love...
Reaction to the film indicates that the "whole male-female thing in this country is very volatile right now. I think many women are feeling used by men. They invest a lot in a relationship, in nurturing a man emotionally and in his career, but they have their own careers and emotions and they don't get that nurturing in return...
...portrayal of Alex, Close says, "I drew on my own unhappy and vulnerable periods as a single career woman and from earlier times. I was never abused like Alex, but I've had times when I thought it would be easy to go crazy." For Close, most of those times came between an idyllic early childhood and her late-blooming film success...
...noticed." One can see that in old family photos, where the other kids often are gazing into left field while Glennie is right up front, beaming an eager smile smack through the back of the camera. Precocious and poised, she proclaimed she was going to be an actress -- a career compromise reached only reluctantly at age five when she accepted that she could not grow up to be a quarter horse. Today she weeps with laughter as she recalls galloping on hands and knees, shouting defiantly to parents, "I'm still going to be a horse even after my breasts...
...humor, beauty and success, Close says she has found it "difficult to balance love and career." Her first marriage, at 21, to Rock Guitarist Cabot Wade, lasted three years, as did her second, to James Marlas, a Manhattan venture capitalist. The man in her life now is Producer John Starke, 37, who worked with her on Garp and is her partner in developing film projects. The two are expecting their first child in April or May. Unlike Alex but rather like her favorite heroine, Jenny Fields, the defiantly unwed mother of Garp, Close has no plans to marry...