Word: offscreen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., and the Council of Ministers . . ." At that point the screen went blank for a moment, and then the outlines of a familiar face with heavy spectacles appeared. Kirilov continued to intone offscreen: ". . . with deep sorrow inform the party and the entire Soviet people that Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, died after a long illness at 16:50 on Feb. 9,1984." The face on the screen...
...said little and stole much of the show, and he is now mightily sought after by Hollywood. But for no strange reason, the film he has currently chosen to do, Country, is a Walt Disney movie that also stars (and is co-produced by) Actress Jessica Lange, his offscreen live-in companion. In what has been described as a modern-day Grapes of Wrath, Shepard and Lange, who teamed up in Frances last year, this time play a struggling Midwestern couple who are losing their farm. They have just finished shooting in two little Iowa towns during some...
...film appears to have been the victim of an editorial chain-saw massacre. Whatever the executive reasons for reducing its three-hour running time to just over two may have been, considerations of dramatic coherence cannot have numbered high among them. The female lead (Jobeth Williams) dies offscreen, her passing noted in just a line or two of dialogue. Another major character, a farmer and family man (John Cullum), gets shot by squatters, and his widowed wife and orphaned children react only by turning toward the sound of the gun. Charac ters tumble in and out like cards...
...Rita Hayworth dance before the movies drafted her knew she was a dancer to partner even the great Astaire. But few of them would have expected her to keep up with his wry, off-beat brand of comedy. She fills both assignments in You'll Never Get Rich. Offscreen she is easygoing and sometimes inert. Before the camera she is bright as a dollar...
...eyes have made her a box-office wonder and an agent's dream. Next up are Mike's Murder, due out this fall, and Terms of Endearment, now filming in Nebraska, in which she plays the difficult daughter of Shirley MacLaine, 49. Early whispers report a battle offscreen as well as on between Winger and MacLaine. The onetime Irma la Douce used to toss off a mean moue herself. Could she be jealous of Winger's new gamine eminence? Or are all the ringside rumors coming from loose lips with nothing better...