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...plot summary can do the movie or the book justice--but suffice it to say it makes following soap operas seem like child's play. Charly (Diane Keaton) is an American actress in England with romantic yearnings for a cause. When she goes to hear a speech by a bemasked and decidedly debonair PLO member, Charly falls hard for him and only slightly less hard for his message. A part in a wine commercial brings her to the island of Mykonos where--surprise, surprise--she meets up with the handsome terrorist...
Like the book, the movie leaves the viewer trying to tamp down an ungrateful feeling of boredom and impatience. In recounting the story of how an unhappy and unsuccessful repertory actress named Charlie (Diane Keaton) is recruited and trained by an Israeli intelligence team to penetrate a Palestinian terrorist organization in order to kill its leader, Director George Roy Hill (The World According to Garp, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) matches Le Carré's heavy spirit. He is a careful workman who does an honest day's labor for an honest dollar, but he lacks...
What the world does not need is a middle-aged elf. For ten years Shirley MacLaine has been complaining that writers cannot provide good roles for women, while Meryl Streep, Ellen Burstyn and Diane Keaton have been acting in terrific pictures...
...starring Jill Clayburgh, and the recently completed The Ambassador, starring Robert Mitchum and Rock Hudson. Now comes The Little Drummer Girl, which was shot on the barren hills of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Based on John le Carré's best-selling novel, the movie stars Diane Keaton, 38, as Charlie, an impressionable English actress who is recruited by Israeli intelligence for a double-agent mission against Palestinian terrorists. Keaton trained with a bazooka and a Soviet-made assault rifle for one of her most dramatic scenes. Says Keaton: "I never did anything like that before...
...overnight multimillionaires, though, revel in their new prominence. Apple Computer Co-Founder Steven Jobs, who is now worth about $185 million, has toyed with the idea of going into politics and was seen escorting Actress Diane Keaton to a Manhattan disco. When Altos Computer Systems Founder David Jackson began counting his wealth in nine figures, he turned up at the Kentucky Derby with then Governor John Y. Brown and was a guest at a San Francisco reception for Queen Elizabeth...