Word: jessica
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been transformed into a pop composer. His plagiarist in Brian De Palma's film has become an evil, omnipotent promoter of rock music named Swan. The theater the Phantom haunts is no longer an opera house but a rock palace on the order of the old Fillmore. Phoenix (Jessica Harper), the woman he hopelessly loves, is now an aspiring pop singer. The organ the Phantom used to pound away on down in the sub-subbasement has become an electronic synthesizer...
...heroine of ABC'S Get Christie Love! (Teresa Graves) gets her man by sassily flouting the orders of her boss-and flaunting the best legs on the force. NBC's Police Woman (Angie Dickinson), a spin-off from Police Story, is only a sergeant. But Amy Prentiss (Jessica Walter), a rib out of NBC's venerable Ironside, is a chief of detectives in command of 260 (male) officers...
...Jessica Richman's Hypatia, a beefy beauty with a lusty voice who fairly dances about the stage is quite the "glorious young beast" Lord Summerhays takes her for. Alison Stanley, as the more independent and less romantically disposed Lina, also strikes a strong and appealing posture. The men are all competent, too--David Aston-Reese appropriately sincere and mindless as Johnny Tarleton, Patrick Young properly insufferable as pitiful little Bentley Summerhays, and Jonathan Frakes, quite the gentleman and quite not the gentleman as the moment demands, as the attractive visitor...
...well as literary ones." He joined Simon & Schuster in 1955, left to become editor-in-chief at Knopf in 1968. Convinced that good writing sells, Gottlieb has won a devoted following of top authors. Among those he personally edits are John Cheever, Doris Lessing, Anthony Burgess, John le Carre, Jessica Mitford...
...performances of Tiina Cartmell, Colgate Salsbury, Margo Martindale, Christopher Reeve, Jessica Richman, and Cynthia Dickason are all magnificent. All manage Weill's difficult music skillfully, and successfully recreate Brecht's mix of cynicism and passion. They derive admirable assistance from the minor players, particularly from Jonathan Frakes, who plays Matt, a resentful member of Mac's gang, and from Patrick Clear, who plays Tiger Brown...