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BORN. To William Hurt, 32, intense, hunky, blond movie idol (Altered States, Body Heat), and Sandra Jennings, 26, dancer with the New York City Ballet: their first child, a son; in New York City. Name: Alexander Devon. Weight...
...three have gathered to reminisce about the twenty years that had passed since their group had dissolved after the death of their idol James Dean in 1955. Each character seems burdened with something from the past that is revealed by the conclusion of the two-hour movie. Sandy Dennis' Mona stuns us with the insipidness of her character. Virtually insane, she consistently insists that she had an affair with James Dean some 20 years before while he was filming the movie Giant. Her every movement, including her stiff posture and constantly flickering tongue, make Mona a treacherously attractive woman...
...mediocre "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy," but she seems to have lost some versatility, Granted, this script does not call for a wide emotional range, but surely the woman can do something besides act perplexed and frightened. Borderline hysteria can be mildly tiring. Hayes's Ted, with matinee-idol looks, seems to have a better grasp on his character's emotional range. But in a film like this, great acting is not of the essence. The cast provides sufficient body for the swift and silly script; they don't need to do much more. After all, Airplane...
...conservative Republican lost the race but not his faith in the power of suggestion. This year, running for Georgia's secretary of state against former Veterans Administration Chief Max Cleland, Belluso hoped his new first name, which he had legally changed, would evoke a connection with his political idol. That did not work either. The man now known as Nick-Reagan Belluso got only 20% of the vote. Then he picked up and left. Said Belluso: "Georgia voters obviously don't want me, so I'm moving to Florida...
...fighting and became a fanatical reader, of Job, of Shakespeare and then of any poetry he could find. He also began to exhibit signs of manic depression. Both aspects showed in his pursuit of a poetic career; in 1937 he journeyed to Vanderbilt University outside Nashville to visit his idol, Allen Tate. He pitched a tent on the poet's lawn for three months...