Word: mariel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Says the 5-ft. 10½-in. Mariel, who played a budding track star in the movie Person al Best: "My height puts me really out there, so I exercise as much as possible...
There are aspects of the new woman in a rising generation of athletes and actresses: the powerful neck and shoulders of Dancer Sandahl Bergman, the huge forearm of Tennis Champ Martina Navratilova, the mesa-flat stomach of Actress Mariel Hemingway, the sinewy "thunder thighs" of Marathoner Gayle Olinekova, the eloquently articulated back muscles of Track Star Patrice Don nelly. But these are not changeable parts on the latest model of Barbie doll. The new body is to be seen and appreciated in the sum and the movement of its parts, the most important of which may be the brain that...
...There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Men will always be attracted to women with nice soft arms and a fleshy bosom." Playboy magazine's 1982 Playmate of the Year, Shannon Tweed, is about the same height and weight as Mariel Hemingway, but her contours are different ? in the soft lines and curves that her beau, Publisher Hugh Hefner, finds so attractive. She will not try to change: "I think you can get too muscular. I'm not the jealous type, but I'd be jealous of a woman with...
WHEN PERSONAL BEST first opened, its advertisements featured a sweaty and determined Mariel Hemingway crouching in racing position. Above the photograph, bold letters proclaimed something like. A movie about crossing boundaries exceeding limitations and giving everything you've got." A few weeks later a different ad appeared. This one showed Hemingway reaching across an empty space to a smiling Patrice Donnelly under the suggestive legend. "With a competitor...how close can you get?" Maybe the film's distributors though lesbianism would sell better than athletics. Form the second ad's rapid disappearance we can inter that it didn...
...leaves his terribly nice wife (Kate Jackson) to take up with a not-quite-so-nice novelist (Harry Hamlin) before he finds a more stable male mate. Also doing well is Personal Best, which purposely makes no big deal about the fact that its two leading figures (played by Mariel Hemingway and Patrice Donnelly) indulge in a lesbian affair while pursuing their careers as Olympic-level track athletes...