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...theatrical adaptation of it more than three decades ago, is all fragile moods and memories. Director Peter Masterson's style, however, is crushingly realistic. And Page is overwhelming in the worst sense of the word, a steamroller of tics, tricks and mannerisms. She is being mentioned for an Oscar nomination--it would be her eighth--and since she is doing enough acting to fill at least that many pictures right here, she may get it. That her highly theatrical style has almost nothing to do with the craft of movie acting will probably not harm her cause: academy members traditionally...
BORN. To Jessica Lange, 36, Oscar-winning actress (for 1982's Tootsie) whose latest film is Sweet Dreams; and her companion of four years, Sam Shepard, 42, Pulitzer prizewinning playwright (for 1978's Buried Child) whose latest play is the critically acclaimed A Lie of the Mind: a daughter, their first child; in Santa Fe. Name: Hannah Jane. Weight...
DIED. Donna Reed, 64, hazel-eyed, sweetly pretty actress who came to symbolize the heartland virtues of American womanhood in films like It's a Wonderful Life (1946) but who won a supporting-actress Oscar when she played against type as a prostitute in 1953's From Here to Eternity; of cancer; in Beverly Hills. Best known as the warmhearted wife and mother in her weekly comedy television series The Donna Reed Show (1958-66), she once insisted that "the public really does want to see a healthy woman, not a girl, not a neurotic, not a sexpot." Her last...
...this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. --Oscar Wilde...
...films, including Easy Living (1937), Beau Geste (1939), The Major and the Minor (1942), The Big Clock (1948), Dial M for Murder (1954) and Love Story (1970), as well as most memorably The Lost Weekend (1945), in which his searing portrait of a desperate alcoholic earned him an Oscar; of cancer; in Torrance, Calif. Once one of the best handgun and rifle marksmen in the British army, the dashing Milland stumbled into acting in minor roles, went to Hollywood and so enjoyed his craft that he abandoned a brief retirement in the early 1960s to take TV and movie character...