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Join us now for another episode of One Life to Liz. As you will recall, Liz, played by Actress Elizabeth Taylor, 49, toiled briefly as a plump Washington matron, shed 40 lbs. and then made her triumphant Broadway debut in Little Foxes. As we resume our story, Liz tells the producers of ABC's General Hospital that she would like to play a cameo role. And so she does, in five appearances beginning this week, playing Helena Cassadine (widow of former GH Villain Mikkos Cassadine). Alas, it should be recorded that her effort is not pluperfect. It seems that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 16, 1981 | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

Nothing sinister here; no conspiracy to impose the melodious common denominator. Like any thriving business, Broadway creates a product to satisfy a market. Just now the market?the tourist from Tokyo, the matron from Larchmont, the executive with a visiting client and some free time ?appears satisfied to sample the easy pleasures of a revue, a revival, another ho-hummable show. "If you want to know why musicals do so well so long," says Neil Simon, "just walk down Fifth Avenue. All you hear are foreign languages. Musicals they can understand." Adds Joseph Papp, who as head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: ... And Another Boffo Season | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...like the crowd that showed up at Blue Lagoon, seems about equally divided between young folks, who howl at the dialogue, and middleaged women, the sort who look as if they frequent the Gothic Books section of their local drugstore, and who sit in awed silence, except for one matron in front of me, who yelled serveral times for the hooting teens to shut up. These plain women believe in the movie, in its fantasy look at beautiful young girls. And they obviously approve of its moral message, which is the centerpiece of this movie. They never spent hot nights...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Coitus Calvin-esque | 7/31/1981 | See Source »

...should just shut up. He has no social graces, but his venom is directed out there somewhere--a romantic who has retreased to snideness since romance died. Richard Bone is a lazy Ivy League, ostensibly working around a marina selling boats, but more often than not hopping from one matron's bed to another, a bored and listless stud. What little structure there is in their lives is provided at Cutter's house--a cramped, cozy bungalow on a suburban street in Santa Barbara and by his wife. Mo (Lisa Eichhorn), a companion and sometimes earth mother...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Real Realism | 7/28/1981 | See Source »

Anna Karenina. A pretty young Russian matron gets a certain Count Vronsky interested in stamp collecting and so saves him from wasting his life in passion and frivolity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: There Must Be a Nicer Way | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

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