Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes with the lubricious dementia of Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart. Yet Deer has a kinder heart toward her characters than either author. The result, while likely to strike some playgoers as scandalous, is the most impressive playwriting debut of the New York season...
Some softball fans may recall last year's debut of the "place a runner on second base at the start of every extra inning" rule. In other words, starting in the eighth inning, the team at bat begins each frame with a bonus runner sitting on second--a plan designed to facilitate scoring and shorten lengthy deadlocks...
There are no speeding-car chases or high-tech weapons, just Middle Ages state- of-the-art horse and armor. Still, in her screen debut, Deborah Leigh Moore felt a definite kinship with the dapper 007 portrayed by her dad Roger Moore. "I fight the Tafurs and the Saracens with sword and dagger, and I joust in tournaments with a lance on horseback," says Deborah, who has just been filming Lionheart on location in Portugal. "I feel like I am playing the feminine side of the sort of thing my father used to do." A generation and a few centuries...
...Beautiful Laundrette, his film debut, playwright Hanif Kureishi uses a sharp ironic scalpel to cut through the bleakness of the nasty South London setting. He gives us humour and a solid plot along with a sturdy and valuable lesson. A quick and scantily budgeted effort, Laudrette grapples with several major conflicts: between immigrants and natives, different generations and sexes, and even pairs of brothers...
...past month, after classes at Princeton, Brooke Shields has been slipping into New York City to rehearse, and last week she made her off- Broadway debut in Marguerite Duras' 1977 play The Eden Cinema. The setting is French Indochina during the 1930s, and Shields, 20, portrays Suzanne, a fetching 16-year-old who is courted by a rich plantation owner. Director Francoise Kourilsky approached her for the part last year. Shields, who is majoring in French literature and had studied Duras' work at school, readily accepted her first professional nonmovie role. "She is a very strong actress," says Kourilsky...