Word: dwan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nickelodeon makes use of a number of incidents reported to Bogdanovich by such pioneers as Directors Raoul Walsh and Allan Dwan. But more important to the film's relative success is the director's warm, but not sloppy feeling for the very earliest period in film history. In telling the story of a tangle-footed lawyer (Ryan O'Neal) who, in the course of fleeing an outraged client, literally falls into show business and accidentally becomes a director, the film perceives that the distinguishing characteristic of those pioneering days was an innocence derived from the fact that...
Possibly the most remarkable piece of Kongcraft, however, is the giant arms employed mainly to pick up and caress Jessica Lange, 27, the model-turned-actress who plays his inamorata, Dwan. The hands are 6 ft. across and the arms weigh 1,650 Ibs. each. They were designed and built separate from the complete Kong body and suspended from a crane in order to lift Lange 30 or 40 ft. into the air. Again, hydraulics were used to manipulate the huge fingers, and there was great concern that they might lack fine motor skills and accidentally crush Lange. Like...
...years," says Paramount's Diller, exaggerating slightly. Lange, who for some time had led a wandering sort of existence as an art student, dancer and model, has invested some of her Kong salary in a home on Lake Nebagamon, Wis., where her parents now live. Just as Dwan stands on the brink of stardom at the end of Kong, so does Lange...
...1950s, a group starring three sisters, slightly reminiscent of the Supremes. That is the notion behind Sparkle, a casually enjoyable excursion 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...