Word: jill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jill Byrem, just out of high school in Bloomsburg, Pa., could draw, sing a little and see a future of limited possibilities. Like no job at the end of the summer. Like few friends left in town once they took off for college. She was, she recalls now, desperate...
...found an application for Brigham Young University, the Mormon school in Provo, Utah, and sent it in "because it wasn't expensive." She was accepted, and borrowed $200 from her grandmother to get there. Her favorite class was art. Jill thought she could be "one of the great ones, painting masterpieces." The students were told to draw a barn, and the results were displayed. Jill checked them out, feeling more confident about her own gifts as she went along. Then she saw one "that shook me like wheels spinning. It was art, far better than mine. It showed...
...John Wayne's "Singin' Sandy" westerns of the mid-'30s. His nemesis turned girlfriend recalls the snooty madcaps of the old screwball comedies. Sondra Locke is no Carole Lombard; indeed, Bronco Billy would have benefited from the presence of a more elegant, less abrasive actress like Jill Clayburgh or Blythe Banner. But Locke strong-arms her way into your affections at about the time Billy wins her over, and by the end of Bronco Billy she has become a part of the family feeling that embraces the cast, the film and the audience...
...intercepted by his conscience. Martin (Stephen D. Newman), a bisexual member of the diplomatic corps who vastly prefers men, delivers his sardonic lines with Wildean brio. He describes his forays among the local boys as "doing my bit for Anglo-Arab relations." Martin's frustrated wife Jill (Holly Barren), a sensualist with an unbridled tongue, tries to get a bit of her own back in a horizontal frolic with Ian (Christopher Curry), a soccer star. But hot as he is for Jill, Ian proves dismayingly un-proficient off the playing field...
...picture is very well played at every level. Jill Eikenberry as Hacklin's second wife manages to make an impact playing an essentially shy, sweet woman. Indeed that is pretty much the way of this film. It tugs gently at one's sleeve. There is not a more satisfactory moment to be seen now on any screen than Hacklin's reunion with his children. One does not cheer, but one leaves the theater feeling just fine...