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...original story, just as Novice Director Peter Werner is defeated by the portentous gothic glooms of the Joyce Carol Gates story he adapted, In the Region of Ice. Actress Fionnuala Flanagan, though, finds just the right portions of grave surprise and spiritual disquiet in the role of a young nun besieged and baffled by the unrelenting attentions of one of her students. Werner at least displays a studied visual flair, a good, strict sense of film rhythm and a willingness to give his actors generous creative space. All these qualities were absent from Sunday Funnies, the program's third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More a Famine than a Festival | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

...modern comedy; she created several roles for George Bernard Shaw, who wrote The Millionairess especially for her. Dame Edith made her film debut at the age of 60 in a 1948 version of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades. Her other films included Look Back in Anger, The Nun's Story, Tom Jones and The Whisperers. Evans started acting in amateur theater productions while working as an apprentice milliner in London. She caught the eye of Director William Poel, who cast her in his 1912 Covent Garden production of Troilus and Cressida. Continuing to act until shortly before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 25, 1976 | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Married. Clarence M. Kelley, 64, FBI director, and Shirley Dyckes, fortyish, a former school teacher and nun; in Maggie Valley, N.C. Kelley's first wife died of cancer last November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 11, 1976 | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

Engaged. Clarence M. Kelley, 64, FBI director, and Shirley Dyckes, fortyish, an elementary-school teacher in Maryland and for 15 years a nun in the Sisters of the Holy Cross. The marriage will be his second, her first. A former Kansas City chief of police, Kelley flew to Missouri each weekend after his 1973 FBI appointment to see his wife Ruby, who died of cancer last November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 20, 1976 | 9/20/1976 | See Source »

Theresa Anne Knowlton, 18, an American girl, arrived in Bangkok last October with vague intentions of becoming a Buddhist nun. Shortly after her arrival, she met a fast-living young Frenchman by the name of Alain Gauthier and attended a party at his apartment, where he was heard to remark that it would be fun to take Theresa to the nearby beach resort of Pattaya. A few days later, on Oct. 18, Theresa's bikini-clad corpse was found at Pattaya. She had been drugged and buried in the sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Innocents Abroad | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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