Word: glenda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THIS UNSCATHING satire, Glenda Jackson is running for abbess of the convent against Felicity (Susan Penhaligon), a young nun who preaches a platform of free love. With the help of her Haldeman-Ehrlichman like cronies (Geraldine Page and Anne Jackson), Jackson engineers a scheme to record her rival's conversations and steal love letters from her sewing basket. Naturally, the Jesuits hired to filch the evidence are caught in the act, and the nuns decide on cover-up rather than confession...
...with little re-entry problem. They were celebrities among their friends-"I never get tired of people asking me questions," Cassisi claims-and had departed with other dividends besides their salary (an average of $250 weekly for the leads, although all-pro Foster collected more). Scott Baio once saw Glenda Jackson and actually met Richard Chamberlain. "These England people, they were very gentle," John's mother Mafalda Cassisi remembers fondly. Jenkins, who is back now riding his skateboard down Harlem streets, recalls touring Buckingham Palace and learning that "Queen wouldn't come out! She wouldn't come...
...complete range of TV programming-news, sports, music, religion, commentary and light entertainment. But the BBC shows that have found their way to the U.S. and turned a tidy profit for the corporation have been mainly polished dramas and documentaries, such as The Forsythe Saga, Elizabeth R. with Glenda Jackson, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man and Alistair Cooke's America. The Shakespeare series, says BBC Programming Director Alasdair Milne, with no understatement at all, "is a vast project, the biggest we have ever undertaken, and a tremendously exciting...
Last year's Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hedda Gabler has been transferred to the screen for reasons that remain mysterious. This is stolid, stilted Ibsen performed by a gallery of waxworks. The movie preserves Glenda Jackson's Hedda for posterity. Posterity has no choice but to accept -but it does not have to be kind...
Divorced. Glenda Jackson, 39, Academy Award-winning actress (Women in Love, A Touch of Class); and Stage Director Roy Hodges, 48; after 18 years of marriage, one child; in London...