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...most actors, inactivity is the most difficult part they will ever play. "It is hard on your soul," says Randy Danson, who understudies Kate Nelligan in Plenty. "You are either extremely bored or extremely terrified, or completely elated or completely crushed." Danson has been all four of those, and two days after the play opened last October, she had to step in when Nelligan had the flu. "For three performances I rode the crest of a tremendous wave," says Danson, "but then I was back in the Green Room doing crossword puzzles. It takes a lot of adjustment to handle...
Understudies fall into two categories. Some have a small regular role, as Voet does, and assume a larger one when someone becomes ill. Occasionally they must be prepared to perform as many as five major parts. Others, called standbys, must simply be on call and attend weekly rehearsals, as Danson does for Nelligan in Plenty. In either case, the pay is the same: $575 a week minimum, more for an actual performance. Says Danson: "Working in Plenty has allowed me to have a savings account for the first time in five years...
...enormous logjam of talented actors out there," Kasdan says, "and precious few of them have good parts to chew on." Body Heat is full of meaty characters and pungent performances-Ted Danson as a tap-dancing prosecutor, J.A. Preston as a dogged detective, and especially Mickey Rourke as a savvy young ex-con who looks and acts as if he could be Ned's sleazier twin brother. Kathleen Turner's Matty mixes come-hither looks with a sultry, baritone voice. This is a creature of fire and ice, with no intermediate shadings of warmth or aloofness. Thanks largely...
After two days of searching, a low-flying joint U.S.-Canadian "sniffer" plane detected what Canadian National Defense Minister Barnett Danson called "an extremely dangerous" level of radiation. A U.S. intelligence official told TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin: "Obviously, some part of the satellite survived the burnout to hit the ground...