Word: mia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly no questionable operation has ever matched the star quality of Home-Stake's investor list. Singer Andy Williams' stake ($538,000*) was among the largest, but he had plenty of celebrity company: Alan Alda ($145,000), Mia Farrow (amount unknown), Barbra Streisand ($28,500), Barbara Walters ($28,500), Bob Dylan (who now has $78,000 more reason to sing of capitalist exploitation). New York Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson put up an unknown amount; Republican Senator Jacob Javits of New York, $28,500; Federal Judge Murray Gurfein, who wrote the decision in the Pentagon-papers case...
...this comic strip stuff, too much more. The camera injects twinkling into everybody's eyes--or are the actors so starstruck by their roles? Karen Black yaws her mouth open like a catcher's mit and rolls out her O's more like monkeys than any Brooklyn twang. Mia Farrow's voice is less of money than of milk. And there is Lois Chiles as Jordan Baker who is the worst since Welch...
...Choosing Mia Farrow to play Daisy Buchanan is like casting Mickey Rooney as Albert Einstein...
That at least implies a certain zeal and commitment, only two of the qualities lacking in Mia Farrow's Daisy. Her characterization-on which so much of the movie depends-is a catastrophe...
There was less pressure on Redford's co-star Mia Farrow, 29, simply because she no longer takes her career so seriously. "She has spent her life being treated like a butterfly who needs to be protected," says Jack Clayton in a burst of romanticism. This is not strictly true. In her Hollywood days, Mia ground out TV's Peyton Place until she briefly became Frank Sinatra's wife. She almost became a major star in Rosemary's Baby. But after marrying Conductor Andre Previn, she opted for domestic life in England with the couple...