Word: judie
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Britain -- and of this robust new movie -- shows his face and speaks. It is an entrance angled to register awe for Kenneth Branagh. But how much awe can a 28-year-old actor, little known outside Britain and directing his first film, expect to inspire? Branagh recalls that when Judi Dench, who plays Mistress Quickly, first saw this scene, "she laughed in my face and said, 'I've never seen an entrance like that! Who do you think you are?' " He retorted, "The film is not called Mistress Quickly the Fourth." No, but it might be called King...
...adaptation of Brideshead Revisited, a novel more in tune with the filmmakers' earnest approach. They are respectful, gently pruning and rearranging Waugh's plot to suit the imperatives of another medium. They have a nice taste in period decor, and they can tap the mannerly acting styles of Judi Dench, Alec Guinness, Anjelica Huston and Pip Torrens...
...deport him) vows to get an education and make lots of money. "I'm gonna have it all, Jake," he announces, celebrating what is surely that line's 100th anniversary in show business. The soap opera continues with Bridget and Georgie O'Donnell (Alice Krige and Judi Bowker), a pair of sisters who flee Ireland when Bridget is implicated in a political kidnaping. She marries a doctor who works on Ellis Island, while her sightless sister forges a career, improbably, as a writer of silent-movie westerns...
...second is nearly gone, and there are plans for a third printing. "We've had to set up an 800 line to handle the requests," burbles the team's attorney and representative, Noel Gould. Among the team's ardent supporters are White House Public Liaison Judi Buckalew, who has asked the athletes to autograph her copy, and California Governor George Deukmejian, who has a framed poster hanging in his Sacramento office. Explains Gould: "The commercial marketplace has finally caught on to what every sorority girl knows: that the best-looking men in the country are water polo...
...other participants, to hear them tell it. "We're doing history here," said Construction Worker Eric Crawford. "It's something to tell your children about," said Anita Saunders, a high-stepper with the Locke Senior High School marching band, "and everybody else." Said Judi Missett, president of Jazzercise and one of 263 Jazzercise instructors who danced to Sing, Sing, Sing: "When I'm 85, I can hold my grandchildren on my kee and say, 'Remember the '84 Olympics? Well, Grandma was there.'" Mel Carpenter, a Hacienda Heights dentist who brought to the show...