Word: enchantress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SEEKING DIVORCE. Stevie Nicks, 35, rock-'n'-roll enchantress (Bella Donna, The Wild Heart); and Kim Anderson, 32, record promoter; after eight months of marriage; in Los Angeles. Anderson was formerly married to Nicks' close friend Robin Anderson, who died of leukemia in 1982 and who had asked the singer to take care of her newborn daughter...
...well-known actors, Helen Mirren and Nicol Williamson, pose deeper problems, and offer more radical solutions. Of Morgana, mistress of mandrake and sulfur, Mirren makes an armored, camp enchantress. Swathed in purple veils and seaweed capes, intoning Merlin's dread spells as if they contained the dirtiest and most sacred words in any world, incarcerating the wizard in a cocoon of cotton candy as she proclaims victory over her mentor, Mirren convinces that she could charm a kingdom-or a film- with her perfidy...
...they sell newspapers. But Dirty Linen does not explore the psychology of public prurience, does not try to explain why people buy newspapers when they contain prying stories about politicians' private lives. In the play's epiphanic moment, a buxom secretary named Maddie Gotobed--the "Titian-haired, green-eyed" enchantress at the root of this particular scandal--instructs the committee of M.P.s investigating the charges that "the people" care about how they perform their public jobs, not how they conduct their personal lives. A sigh and a smile sweeps through the audience; they, too, can share in the self-righteous...
...Martinique the author has an audience with one of the island's aging aristocrats, an enchantress whose piano playing attracts an exotic group of listeners: green, scarlet and lavender chameleons. Abandoned on a Connecticut country road, Capote meets a widow who shelters him in her cottage and shows him a freezer full of dead cats, old pets she could not bear to part with. Two policemen wait at a Los Angeles airport boarding gate to arrest Capote for ignoring a subpoena to testify in a murder case he had researched. The situation looks hopeless until he runs into Pearl...