Word: olsens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will stalk onto Broadway early next year. Signature lines of kitty sheets, towels, ceramic cat planters, calendars, mugs, watches, umbrellas, T shirts, sweatshirts, stationery and housewares move swiftly at gift stores and specialty shops like Purrfection in New York and the Cat House in Los Angeles. Mimi Vang Olsen, 43, a New York portraitist, will immortalize an owner's beloved cat in vibrant, primitivist oils for $2,500. There is a pet motel in Prairie View, Ill., that offers apartments, roomettes and imperial suites to guest cats for up to $6.50 a day: letters sent by the vacationing owners...
...evening outfits that could turn First Lady Nancy Reagan into a blue-jeans and turtleneck kind of girl, Bob Hope, 78, Bruce Jenner, 31, and former Football Great Merlin Olsen, 40, dragged out a parody version of Johnny Paycheck's Take This Job and Shove It. The trio were done up as the Mandrake Sisters (read Mandrel! Sisters) for Bob Hope's All-Star Comedy Look at the New Season-It's Still Free and Well Worth It, to be aired on NBC later this month. Though the three woeful crooners belted out the number...
...peak over the past year. Whether from a lack of imagination and originality, or simply from a resurgent interest in adapting fiction and drama, original screenplays are becoming harder to find. The translation from another medium is often an awkward, difficult task. Lee Grant's screen adaptation of Tillie Olsen's classic 1961 novella about an aging Jewish immigrant couple facing the problems of elderly life haunted by the lasting effect of Nazi torture treats her subject with admirable restraint and sensitivity...
Although the plot is tediously slow, Grant's sensitive direction enhances the brilliant performances of Douglas and Kedrova, translating the Olsen story's depiction of typically modern confusions clearly and cohesively on film. Grant obviously understands the complexity Olsen gave to Eva's character. Her stubbornness certainly can be annoying, but cannot subdue the sympathy Kedrova elicits by capturing the intensity of a woman almost shattered by Nazi torture--the fear and sensitivity of a woman living within herself: finding solace in the literature and old photographs of Emile Zola and Victor Hugo, associating images of her playful grandchildren with...
...ADAPTED SCREENPLAY especially triumphs in its portrayal of the relationship between Eva and her granddaughter Jeannie. Unlike Jeannie's minor role in Olsen's novella. Joyce Eliason and Alex Lytie, authors of the screenplay, developed the granddaughter's character fully, allowing her to unearth Eva's "other" personality: that of a casual, free-spirited, and highly intellectual woman. The authors successfully show the mutual infatuation of relationships that span generations...