Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. James Daly, 59, character actor who is currently being seen as Dr. Paul Lochner in reruns of TV's Medical Center; following a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y. Daly managed to sustain an active Broadway career (Saint Joan, Billy Budd, J.B.) while garnering more than 600 television credits, primarily in adventure shows (The F.B.I., Mission: Impossible...
...Joan Baez, songstress and protester, after meeting Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov in Moscow: "He is paying a much higher price for his dissenting views than I ever had to pay for mine...
...last time a performer appeared in the stadium for a concert program was in 1969, when Boston's "Summer thing" sponsored the performance of several rock groups in a billing with Joan Baez. But the Athletic Department denied promoters use of the stadium in subsequent years because of damages to the stadium that followed several demonstrations and arrests after the 1969 performance...
Grease would be a better movie if Stigwood and Carr had stuck to the basics. They have compiled a fairly impressive group of retread stars to make the era complete; Eve Arden plays Rydell High's Principal McGee, Joan Blondell is Vi, the confidante/waitress type, Edd Byrnes does a good job as Vince Fontaine, host of National Bandstand, and Sid Caesar is a good fascist coach Calhoun. Of course, Sha-Na-Na is there too, as Johnny Casino and the Gamblers, and "everyone's favorite '50s group...
Even before movie audiences got their first glimpse of Beatty, he was starring in Hollywood gossip columns. Nominally engaged to Actress Joan Collins, Beatty carried on a public affair with Splendor Co-Star Natalie Wood. It broke up her marriage to Actor Robert Wagner, though they later remarried. (A few years later Director Peter Hall named Beatty the corespondent in a divorce suit against Leslie Caron.) Beatty was notorious as a rake, and not of the garden variety, by the time his first film opened. At the time, his feelings about his profession were mixed. "When I would...