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...their own lower-wattage Redfords in Brokaw, Jennings, Stone Phillips. And now, when Redford finally gets into a TV-news movie, he's nearly 60, too old to begin a career as anchor. His job in Up Close and Personal is to mentor the promising rookie played by Michelle Pfeiffer...
Very loosely based on the rise of news reader Jessica Savitch, the script by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne sends Sally Atwater (Pfeiffer)--all elbows and naked ambition--into a Miami TV newsroom presided over by Warren Justice (Redford), who ankled the network scene because he was too darned independent. Sally, later called Tally, is raw but cunning and learns quickly; best of all, in the tyranny of telegenics, "she eats the lens." Soon she has the coolest gig in journalism: asking hard questions of politicians by day, having Robert Redford massage her feet at night...
Then, in honor of her baseball-loving character in "Bull Durham," the officers handed her a bat and Burlinson prepared to pitch her the ball. The bat, little more than a long stick, prompted Sarandon to note: "This looks like Michelle Pfeiffer's whip...
Sarandon joins the ranks of such women as Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Sally Field, Meg Ryan and Michelle Pfeiffer, who have received the award, established...
...WINFREY OR any other movie woman, is that those films had better enhance studios' purses. Male Hollywood may congratulate itself on allowing these women's films, then blame a whole genre--indeed, a whole gender--if a few flop. "Women don't get the second chances men get," says Pfeiffer, who next year will produce and star in the romantic comedy One Fine Day. "We know we'll pay more dearly for our failures. So we try to be a lot more sure about our choices...