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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...
...Washington she toured the national monuments. The point of her 13-day visit was to bring a message of world peace to U.S. children and adults alike, so Katya was more than happy when during her White House tour she happened to bump into the nation's top grownup on his way to work in the Oval Office. "Our children, children anywhere, cannot live happily while there are nuclear weapons on earth," she told the Commander in Chief, who said that ending the threat of nuclear war would make him happy too. Nevertheless, TASS later complained that the meeting...
...others," testified Company President Alan Fortunoff at a recent hearing. Comments like Fortunoff's only inflame puffers. "I know not smoking is the best thing, but I don't want anyone else telling me when to give it up," declares Norma Tevelow of Union County, N.J. "I'm a grownup...
EXPECTING. Tatum O'Neal, 22, grownup child actress (Paper Moon, Little Darlings); and her companion John McEnroe, 26, splenetic tennis star, now serving a 21-day suspension from professional competition for incurring more than $7,500 this year in bad-conduct fines. After weeks of denying rumors, McEnroe told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that he was "proud of" his impending fatherhood. The couple has not set a wedding date...
...adults were encouraged to behave like children. The two strains of American design thus converged again, spectacularly, and this time the self-conscious sci-fi playfulness had a hysterical go-go edge. Just as children's toys had become plastic, throwaway items after World War II, grownups' furniture became overtly disposable. Frank Gehry's democratic cardboard-and-pressed- fiber chairs (1972) are delightful, but did anyone outside of an Antonioni film ever enjoy sitting on an inflatable plastic couch or wearing a paper dress? American designers today are again devoting themselves to grownup toys intended to make their owners feel...