Word: on-screen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...North Carolina, where Lange was appearing in a threadbare sex comedy, she was ready to show him what moviegoers had missed. Rafelson recalls that he found "an incredibly sensual woman who made no effort to be sensual. I thought that if I could get this woman to be on-screen the way she was in repose, she would be utterly striking." He took her to Hollywood for screen tests with Jack Nicholson. Two years before, she had tested for Nicholson's Coin' South. She lost that part, but he sent her roses and a note that read...
...anchorman from the CBS Evening News goes the man who more than anyone else has shaped and given stature to the role. In the fickle high-risk arena of television, where admiration swiftly changes to boredom or dislike, Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," has been the stablest on-screen presence of them all. His departure is forcing a restudy, at all three networks, of the job itself...
...often does a television reporter ask an uninformed question so that his station's camera can display his presence on-screen?) Sucked into such a situation, a number of reporters had troubling problems with their own roles last week. Many had come to know and like hostage families, and the liking was reciprocated. But there also had been other experiences...
...press conference was not even about the hostages' welfare, or about their families: it was Daniel Schorr wanting to know the hostages' attitude toward the press. Did Schorr expect a testimonial from them, or would he have been just as happy (since TV interviewers like to elicit on-screen emotion) had someone flared at him? Afterward, NBC's Linda Ellerbee, mad as a wet hen, complained on the air about "the controlled scene," the "sort of official line" she had heard, and the welcome home-type questions-instead of the presumably sharp ones she would have asked...
DIVORCED. Dustin Hoffman, 43, Oscar winner last seen on-screen as the abandoned husband who seeks to gain custody of his child in the 1979 film Kramer vs. Kramer; and sometime Ballerina-Actress Anne Byrne, 36, after eleven years of marriage, one child; in New York City. Lately Hoffman has been squiring Lisa Gottsegen, 25, a lawyer...