Word: melson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the actors in Nothing On are so temperamental that the audience laughs as Dallas struggles hopelessly to take charge of his company. Sara Melson, who plays Brooke Ashton, who plays bimbo Vicki, stands out as the stereotypical half-brain-dead sexpot actress. Melson's over-exaggerated hand gestures, when she is Vicki, and her overly self-conscious, seductive walk as Brooke are amusing...
...suposed to begin when the Hollander family, American tourists who have innocently been taking pictures of Communist missile sites, is chased into the Embassy by Communist police. Mr. Hollander (Orion Ross) is outraged that the Communists have taken "an innocent caterer" from Newark, New Jersey captive; his wife (Sara Melson) spends her time running up the embassy phone bill with constant calls to friends back home; and his daughter (Eliza Rosenbluth) predictably falls in love with the hapless Axel...
Despite poor direction, Williams' words do manage to shine through some of the characters. Thea Henry is a vibrant Venable, and Jy Murphy dexterous in his minute role as Cathie's brother. And Sara Melson couldn't look more like a Southern woman of Williams' time. Still, Suddenly Last Summer can't end suddenly enough...
After a year's absence, Julian (Dan Rapport) and his new wife Lily (Ellen Bledsoe) pay an unexpected visit to Julian's spinster sisters Anna (Nora Jaskowiak) and Carrie (Sara Melson). Julian, who has become suddenly and mysteriously rich, showers his wife and sisters with gifts, but the women are unhappy because Julian's newfound independence upsets the balance of his relationships with each of them. Lily's anxiety is compounded by the presence of her estranged mother Albertine (Katherina Urso) and her mother's lover, Henry (Lisa Garmire...