Word: parton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work in the movie's naturalistic context. But Herbert Ross insists on theatricality. His editing even provides awkward little pauses for the audience to fill with laughter, just as if this were still a play. As a result, some very good performers (Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Daryl Hannah, Dolly Parton) function less as full-scale sorority sisters than as chorus members who elbow their way up front in a crowd of even sketchier characters...
Eastwood plays a fun-loving hard guy who captures fugitives who have skipped out on their bail money; cons a villain into believing he has won a date with Dolly Parton, then shows up in a limousine and arrests him; dresses up as a rodeo clown and nabs a bad-guy bull rider on first bounce, just as the bull has tossed him. Peters plays -- but you knew this, didn't you? -- a gorgeous, daffy bail jumper. She isn't really a villain, of course. Her dopey husband is involved with a crew of gun-fondling white supremacists, and they...
...Tomorrow. Says one studio publicity executive: "If you have a few Class A stars in a picture, you can play the two shows off each other until you get everything you want. On Steel Magnolias, for example, you could tell Today they can have Sally Field and Dolly Parton if they take on some lesser-known actors as well. Then you tell Good Morning America that they can have Shirley MacLaine and Olympia Dukakis if they do other segments on the film. On a picture like that, I'd go for the gold...
...lifetime studying things that go bump in the night." Then there is Bill Steed of Emeryville, Calif., who dresses like a Wild West dandy, calls himself a professor of frog psychology and, at his Croaker College, trains jumping frogs. The school's graduates have been presented to Dolly Parton and Ronald Reagan, who, despite his interest in astrology and passion for jelly beans, is not an eccentric, says Weeks...
...September, the little town of Bluefield, Va., will hold a Ben Franklin look-alike contest, open to women as well as men. No one yet knows if the winner of last year's Dolly Parton look-alike contest -- a man as it happens -- will try his luck again. In Georgia, the colonial dancers of the University of Georgia are already practicing their minuets and reels for a gala ball to be held Jan. 2 at the World Congress Center -- 18th century dress only, please...