Word: karens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Married. Erich Segal, 37, bestselling tearjerker (Love Story, Fairy Tale) who has been writing and lecturing at Princeton since he left his classics professor's job at Yale; and Karen Marianne James, 28, a British children's book editor whom he met last summer on a flight from Tel Aviv; he for the first time, she for the second; in Princeton...
Such defiantly unglamorous physical attributes might hamper the career of an aspiring stewardess on any regularly scheduled airline, but they have helped make Karen Black, 32, the busiest actress in Hollywood. She has just finished her sixth movie in the past two years, and last week she began work on her seventh, Alfred Hitchcock's Deceit. She has not sought out safe, sympathetic parts. She has played the teasing Faye Greener in The Day of the Locust, the honky-tonk waitress Rayette Dipesto in Five Easy Pieces, the low-down and libidinous Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby...
Bruce Dern, who in Deceit will co-star with her for the third time, says: "Karen is always alive on that screen." Jack Nicholson, her co-star in Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces and her director in Drive, He Said, maintains that "she's the most lucid actress I've ever worked with. You tell her where it's at and she grabs it." For Black, acting is like grabbing at air. She says that she plans nothing about a character and gives a role "no prior thought...
...would deny, however, that she hurls herself into her roles with uncommon zeal. Drive, He Said originally got an X rating partly because of the ardor that Black and Co-Star William Tepper showed during one scene in the front seat of a car. After filming a nude scene, Karen can forget to put her robe back on. On one movie set she volunteered to the wife of a costar: "How can you live with such a schlump? Divorce him before he destroys...
...Faye, Karen Black displays the selfishness and banality of a seductive blonde eternally on the make. Always on the defensive, she seeks to extract what she can from any situation while giving up as little as possible. When Tod asks why she has taken up with Homer Simpson, a retired clerk from the midwest, she brays impatiently that Homer is the only one who "doesn't want anything from...