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...first thought the contrast between Sheedy and Helena Bonham Carter, 19, the English star of Lady Jane and A Room with a View, is roughly that between Los Angeles and London. Then the imagined gap narrows. Each young woman is exceptionally intelligent, and each knows that she was chosen for her first role mostly for her looks, to please the camera as a pretty teenager. Each is the daughter of a prosperous and secure upper-middle-class family that was shaken by trauma. Sheedy's parents separated when she was nine, and she spent the rest of her childhood shuttling...
...Lady Jane, her first film, is no formula flick, but an ambitious costume melodrama about the violent period after the deaths of Henry VIII (in 1547) and, six years later, his sickly young son Edward VI. Nevertheless--castles, moats, 16th century costumes and all--the film sinks at its worst moments to the level of teenage fantasy. Bonham Carter, small and dark haired, with huge brown eyes and a face that suggests a miniature in an antique locket, plays the doomed Lady Jane Grey, who lost her life at 16 in an attempt to prevent Henry's Catholic daughter Mary...
...through a merger of the Department of Architectural Sciences and a then fledgling program in the visual arts. But many feel that the department has not received the recognition and respect it deserves from University Hall administrators. "The University doesn't take [VES] seriously," says Associate Professor Jane B. Tuckerman. "They don't take studio art as a serious discipline for the future lives of young people. We're the black sheep of the University...
...Democrat of Tennessee. In some ways the Baby Boomers have indeed turned old values upside down, revolutionizing the role of women and transforming American taste, music and sexual mores. "Because of their numbers and their approach to life, Baby Boomers are setting standards for the rest of us," says Jane Fitzgibbon, director of research development for the Ogilvy & Mather ad agency. But in other areas, a lot of shadows have fallen between the dream and the reality...
...that legend with its lifetime achievement award. Resplendently slim in a petaled silk organza gown by Arnold Scaasi, Taylor, 54, arrived (45 minutes late, typically) to take her seat in a box next to her mother Sara Taylor, 90, and listen to testimonials by the likes of Roddy McDowell, Jane Powell, Mike Nichols and Lillian Gish. "She is herself an occasion," exclaimed longtime Friend McDowell, "a bona fide movie star, a national treasure." To prove that point, 70 minutes of highlights from 23 of her films were shown, starting with The White Cliffs of Dover (made when she was twelve...