Word: mame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SPOILS OF WAR In Michael Weller's poignant memoir, off-Broadway and briefly on it, Kate Nelligan gave the performance of the year as an Auntie Mame mom, mingling furtive boozing and strutting glamour, dignity and desperation...
Putting products on the big screen is hardly a new pitch. Joan Crawford knocked back Jack Daniel's in Mildred Pierce, and Rosalind Russell dabbed on Charles of the Ritz perfume in Auntie Mame (1958). But ever since lovable E.T. followed a line of Reese's Pieces to a record box-office gross in 1982 -- and & sales of the candy leaped 66% in three months -- film pitches have become a bustling field. Ray-Ban sent 500 pairs of sunglasses to director Oliver Stone for his new feature, Born on the 4th of July. A scene in Cocoon: The Return...
...earlier life Shirley MacLaine was a splendid actress. Not so in her current incarnation as the Auntie Mame of films and chat shows. Her Madame is a cacophony of jangling bracelets and coquettish demands -- just the sort of acting that wins Oscars. Schlesinger's direction suits his star, with visual metaphors as subtle as a wrecking ball against a London house. Down goes the old world of nattering gentility; up comes the high-rise of Third World aspirations...
SPOILS OF WAR. Kate Nelligan shows the dark side of an Auntie Mame-style mom in Michael Weller's off-Broadway memory play, through June...
SPOILS OF WAR. Kate Nelligan shows the dark side of an Auntie Mame-style mom in Michael Weller's off-Broadway memory play, through June...