Word: girls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maturity displayed by Molly and her coterie of rising young stars made a similar impression on Correspondent Michael Riley. While interviewing Laura Dern and Ally Sheedy, Riley found "it was hard to remember that behind an actress's grownup face lurks the mind and heart of a playful girl." Reporter- Researcher William Tynan, who interviewed Rebecca De Mornay, is himself a former TV and stage actor. For Tynan, a story about Hollywood's newest generation evoked old memories. "It was fun to talk about the kind of work I had done years ago," said Tynan. "Also, I could empathize with...
...radiant Molly Ringwald is not the only such coming attraction. Ally Sheedy, who plays the sulky flake to Molly's good girl in The Breakfast Club, is one of a lively and sometimes dazzling handful of others. Sheedy is 23 now, and the leggy, earnest, puppy-cute teenager of WarGames shows up less frequently in her movements than it used to. Her looks have always pivoted at an intriguing point between plain and stunning, a balance that is bad for a movie star but lucky for an actress. She has a pointy nose, a shock of reddish-brown hair...
Acting captivates Sheedy, and she wants to play everything "from a nun to a safari adventurer to a peasant girl to Lady Macbeth." She can't, however, imagine herself trying something as difficult as Meryl Streep's tour de force in Sophie's Choice. "I don't think I could play a sex-starved rock singer," she speculates, pausing to see how that possibility strikes her listener. Then, grinning, she changes her mind: "But maybe I could." She is on view in two fairly routine films released this month, Blue City, a thriller in which she plays Judd Nelson...
...much a matter of knees and shoulders and elbows. She looks as if she should be playing power forward on the UCLA women's basketball team. That's obvious. But what is on view is not merely the result of 19 years of good groceries. Connie, the girl seduced by the Treat Williams character in Smooth Talk, is supposed to be physical, a fretful, yearning high school sophomore whose lush, gawky body has outgrown the controls of fear and reason. In Mask, Dern was equally convincing as a very different type, the shy, innocent blind girl...
...auditioned for The Breakfast Club but was turned down, and since then has avoided most films that she calls "teen junk." The extravagant praise she has heard for Smooth Talk makes her uneasy, and she has tried to deflate expectations for her next role, an inquisitive girl next door who gets involved in a murder mystery, in the thriller Blue Velvet, to be released in September...