Word: jill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passion. Passions." Hanna K. is a passionless film about passions - the Israelis' passion to endure while surrounded by the barbed wire of Arab hostility, the Palestinians' passion to reclaim their homeland, the passion of one woman for justice and a fair measure of self-respect. Hanna Kaufman (Jill Clayburgh) is an American Jew who has come to Israel to practice law. Her first major client, a young Palestinian (Muhamad Bakri) caught sneaking into Israel, is attempting to secure legal right to the house he lived in as a boy. Prodded by her estranged husband (Jean Yanne) and provoked...
...Actress Jill Clayburgh, 39, seems to have entered a legal phase. Two years ago, she was a Supreme Court Justice in First Monday in October. Now in Hanna K., a new political film by Director Costa-Gavrass (Z, Missing), she plays an American attorney turned Israeli citizen who takes on the controversial case of an Arab charged with persistently and illegally crossing the border into Israel. "It is an allegorical tale," says Clayburgh. Though she had little time to play tourist while filming in Israel, being virtually unknown there gave her a welcome escape from the pressures of fame. Says...
...crippling enforcement programs. The new director has impressed White House officials, even the few who were initially reluctant to bring him aboard. "It's a measure of how much Reagan needed Bill," a friend of Ruckelshaus points out, "because he knew he was going to have to take Jill too." At 46, Jill Ruckelshaus is not a typical political wife. She holds a master's degree in education from Harvard. She prefers backyard basketball to black-tie dinners, and a quiet family life in a Seattle suburb to the social whirl of Washington, D.C. A decade...
...recent discrimination flap was not the first time that Jill, who was appointed to the Civil Rights Commission by Jimmy Carter in 1980, has tangled with Reagan. Last year the President attempted to sack her, then backed down. She was due to be replaced again this year, but then her husband joined the Reagan team. Said an Administration official: "It would hardly be the thing to do to boot out the wife of your EPA director...
...have been married 21 years and have five children (two by Ruckelshaus' first wife, who died during childbirth), are an even-tempered and devoted pair. Bill likes to tease his wife about being the "radical" in the family, but they seem generally unconcerned at the awkwardness of Jill's publicly criticizing her husband's boss. "I've said before, if it ever came to a choice between my job and my wife," Ruckelshaus says, "I'd choose my wife." Adds Jill: "We're not a fairy-tale couple. And there...