Word: lynda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expresses cheek more winsomely than the remarkable Emily Lloyd, 16, who plays Lynda, the teenage heroine of Writer-Director David Leland's Wish You Were Here! In the course of writing the film Personal Services -- a raffishly surreal account of Cynthia Payne's career as a divinely unhypocritical London madam that illuminated American screens early this year -- Leland learned enough about her early life to offer this prequel. And a marvelously uncluttered tale...
...first version, are plaintive solos for disillusioned women: Broadway Baby, in which an old show girl (Margaret Courtenay) recalls youthful struggles in a tinkly, ironic forerunner of A Chorus Line's What I Did for Love; Who's That Woman?, a realization by a brassy belter (Lynda Baron) of how age has crept up on her; Could I Leave You?, an outpouring of vitriol from a neglected wife (Rigg); Losing My Mind, the pathetic admissions of a suppliant lover (Julia McKenzie). Sondheim's best lyric ever is I'm Still Here, an anthem of survival that compresses four decades...
EXPECTING. Lynda Carter, 35, curvilineal actress who was the eponymous star of TV's Wonder Woman, and her husband, Washington Lawyer Robert Altman, 40: their first child. The baby's anticipated arrival in January has forced Carter to postpone a network sitcom scheduled for the fall...
...Lynda Murphy of Andover, Mass., who brought her children to try out and to see the TV star, had brought a Polaroid camera with her to take personal pictures, but when she realized there were several people at the casting who had forgotten to bring photographs, she turned their loss into her financial gain...
...must be noted that Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii bears absolutely no resemblance to Sartre's dark existential classic about overcrowding. What we really have here is a better-than-average sex farce about a geology teacher (Tom Hughes) who brings home a Harlequin romance hack named Vivien Bliss (Lynda Cohen) for a weekend tryst...