Word: kates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed a simple enough stunt, so simple that Actress Kate Nelligan, 33, was determined to run the explosive course herself. On location in Spain, the actress was playing the title role in Eleni, the film of Nicholas Gage's book about his Greek mother (she was executed in 1948 by Communist rebels who had occupied her village after World War II). In the scene simulating an artillery attack by government forces, Nelligan "decided to liven it up with some clever falls I devised for myself, including somersaults when the mines and bullets were near misses." By the time...
...beautiful Bianca cannot marry until her sharp-tongued older sister is suitably bethrothed. The three suitors for Bianca's hand, Lucentio, Gremio and Hortensio, stake the gold-digging fool Petruchio into marrying Katherina and clearing the path to wed Bianca. While Petruchio engages in verbal duels with Kate, Lucentio and Hortensio disguise themselves and woo Bianca in secret...
...good. Once Kate and Petruchio are married, he begins a regimen of brainwashing as Groucho Marx might have done it, and by the end of the play Kate is "tamed," a seemingly docile and meek servant to Petruchio's will...
...course, little in Shakespeare is that simple-mindedly didactic, and many productions of Taming play up the irony of Kate's position, treating her surrender as a victory of sarcasm or love or something else. But director of this play as an unbridled assault of headstrong machismo against virtuous female independence, and tries "to image a Katherina who is truly made submissive, who really relinquishes her will, who is just as broken as nay hunting falcon or busted bronce...
...sure, a few down-to-earth, relatively realistic females have gained a foothold in prime time, on such shows as Cagney & Lacey and Kate & Allie. Moreover, several of the season's glitziest newcomers-like ABC's Glitter, which was taken off the air after just three episodes-have been struggling in the ratings. But Collins and her sisters in silk and satin are clearly setting the dominant style of high-gloss femininity, and their ranks are growing. Gina Lollobrigida has joined the cast of Falcon Crest, and Ali MacGraw will appear on Dynasty later this season. Yvette Mimieux...