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...with a street-tough elegance evoke the likes of Buddy Holly and James Dean, and are as much a talisman of the '50s as white socks and penny loafers. John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd wore them in the movie The Blues Brothers, and in Terms of Endearment Jack Nicholson seemed to have Wayfarers grafted onto his face. They became a mass pop phenomenon when Tom Cruise hid himself behind a pair in Risky Business in 1983. As a result, says Paul Brickman, the movie's writerdirector, kids are buying attitude, a "street-bad kind of look...
...Washington Post, where Au thor Woodward heads up the investigative reporting staff, is drawing the kind of hoopla usually kindled by more conventional show-biz behemoths; an excerpt has also appeared in Playboy. Like some Hollywood superproduction, the book boasts a long list of cameo appearances by stars (Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Carrie Fisher and miscellaneous The Rolling Stones) whose presence has nothing of importance to contribute save what agents and producers like to call "name value...
...Angeles Correspondent Denise Worrell interviewed many of those who worked with MacLaine on Terms of Endearment, including Director James Brooks and Co-Stars Jack Nicholson and Debra Winger. Associate Editor William A. Henry III, who wrote the cover story and talked with both MacLaine and her brother, Warren Beatty, was particularly struck by MacLaine's earnestness. Says he: "She never sloughs off a question. She really takes the process of communication very seriously." After attending a cover photo session, Henry was even more impressed by MacLaine's discipline. Says he: "She was to do a high kick, sometimes...
Still, to many people the character was unsympathetic-monstrous or, worse, ridiculous. The cancer-ridden daughter, played by Debra Winger, would get most of the sympathy, and Jack Nicholson's breezy, boozy ex-astronaut would get most of the laughs. Even more perilous for an actress past 40, Aurora had to age, painfully, gracelessly. Unlike stars who demand that the camera flatter them, the vibrant MacLaine made herself look ravaged, the neglected ruin of a beauty...
...called the performance "brilliant overacting." The same could be said of her Aurora, a woman whose funniest line-"Why should I be happy about being a grandmother?"-is screeched at the pitch and volume of a train whistle. Yet the performance is subtly detailed. In a romantic scene with Nicholson, for example, MacLaine softly taps her chest with her balled hand. The gesture signals rather than spontaneously expresses Aurora's sentimentality-because, MacLaine explains, the character is not at ease with her body. The model for Aurora, she adds, was the late Martha Mitchell, wife of former Attorney General...