Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Regina is a role that permits her to be both sex-and bitch-goddess, to range from coquetry to carnage. Since The Little Foxes is an out-and-out melodrama, it relies on manipulated emotions and Taylor need not probe authentic feelings. Like all melodramas, Foxes provides playgoers with the grand fun of mentally hissing villains, crying over victims and cheering on heroes...
...erect and self-possessed. Her anarchic blond hair frames a face dominated by classic cheekbones and sulfurous dark eyes, suggesting a Faye Dunaway who does not yet know she is beautiful. She has the strength and solidity of a heroic sculpture-Maillol's Leda, perhaps-a peasant-goddess rooted in the earth. With this performance, Lange has passed from the status of minor curiosity as the heroine of Dino De Laurentiis' King Kong to that of respected actress and, maybe, star. Jack Nicholson thinks so: he calls her "the sex star...
...break room that I got my chance to flirt with Jill, an undiscovered sex goddess. Unlikely, you say? How about 14th runner-up-in the Miss New York State contest? She would toss her perfectly coiffed sand-colored hair, hazel eyes twinkling, and say. "So you go to Harvard...
...Prime Minister, following the resignation of the increasingly unpopular Odvar Nordli, 53. A physician with a Harvard master's degree in public health, Brundtland thus became the third member of that highly exclusive club-women heads of government (along with Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi). Nicknamed "the green goddess" for her impassioned protection of the Norwegian woods, Brundtland favors backing NATO strongly and stationing U.S. military equipment in Norway. But some Norwegians are more impressed with her talent for building political coalitions...
With such stylized direction and dialogue, and such an overpowering vision, Scorsese has always relied on his actors to make his films immediate and real. They have rarely failed him, and they don't fail him here. Moriarty recreates the sex goddess of that era: blond and yielding. With her coyness of expression and a voice low and flat as a pool table, she tells us all we need to know about a certain kind of woman in a certain kind of neighborhood. Joe Pesci, also in his first movie role, is perfect as the little man and the little...