Word: co-star
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After a few undistinguished turns on Broadway, the male ingenue, now equipped with a marquee name, headed west. His wife and baby son Michael followed in his slipstream. In his first film, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Barbara Stanwyck was indifferent to her co-star for several weeks. One morning her manner changed: "She said, 'Hey, you're pretty good.' I said, 'Too late, Miss Stanwyck...
...Murphy. Last week CBS signed him to a three-year contract for shows he will direct, produce or appear in. Coming to America is the first in a lucrative five-film deal with Paramount Pictures. Murphy also hopes to direct The Butterscotch Kid (a comedy starring Arsenio Hall) and co-star with James Earl Jones in a film version of August Wilson's drama Fences. Says Jerry Bruckheimer, who co-produced both Cop movies: "He's such a wanna-see guy -- you wanna see what he'll do next. If he was available, there'd be a wild melee...
Tomlin is an adept dear, and has a fine time hexing Moramax's corporate wimps with her voodoo snake whammy. Still, you may vainly search for signs of the quicksilver wit and emotional risk she radiates onstage. Someday Hollywood will harness her genius, in some movie with a different co-star. After all, who looks at anyone else when Bette Midler is around? It is a privilege merely to watch her walk her walks: the not-quite-ladylike mince, the executive sweep, the strumpet's strut. She lopes easily from City Sadie, the bitch goddess who spits out orders...
...wonder at his remarkable odyssey. It is the voice of baseball on radio in Des Moines, of Hollywood flickering off the screen, of Sacramento, of Washington, and now of Moscow: friendly, unhurried in the midst of planned chaos. He ventures the thought that so many shared while watching him co-star with his fellow showman Mikhail Gorbachev in Red Square. "I never expected to be here," the President says...
Once Hanks was hooked on acting, the result of a junior-college theater course, his path was fairly smooth. In 1980 he was chosen as the co-star of Bosom Buddies, a short-lived comedy about two young advertising copywriters. A year after the show was canceled in 1982, Hanks landed the part of an ordinary guy who falls in love with a mermaid. Before you could say Splash, he was a star...