Word: prentiss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are two more McGees in the works on the author's blue IBM Selectric, which he totes between a house in Florida and a summer fishing camp on a lake in New York's Adirondacks. MacDonald's wife, Dorothy Prentiss, is an artist. He has long since shed any resentment against the other Macdonald, that more critically esteemed thriller writer whose real name is not John Ross Macdonald at all but Kenneth Millar. ("At least," allows John D., "the guy is literate, even if he does keep hitting the same barrel.") The real MacDonald...
...Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum. One night when Zero Mostel hosted the Cavett show, he ran up and kissed the television camera lens, molested Paula Prentiss and danced with several old women in the audience. No time watching Zero could ever be called wasted--he is our funniest actor, and when he is harnessed properly, one of our best. This Richard Lester movie comes close to using him correctly, and besides, it has three other extremely talented comedians working for it: Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and a battered depleted Buster Keaton. It never gets into...
...mores. He scores some good points by having his living dolls talk exactly like the female humanoids in TV commercials-fretting about the need for spotless floors and coffee that tastes fresh-perked. Forbes, on the other hand, sees an opportunity for serious suspense. Will Katharine Ross and Paula Prentiss, newcomers to Stepford, realize what is afoot in this too, too peaceful Connecticut town and get out before they are traded hi for living dolls? He manages to work up some reasonable suspense over this matter. Somehow, though, the writer's prime concern and the director's never...
...heroine of ABC'S Get Christie Love! (Teresa Graves) gets her man by sassily flouting the orders of her boss-and flaunting the best legs on the force. NBC's Police Woman (Angie Dickinson), a spin-off from Police Story, is only a sergeant. But Amy Prentiss (Jessica Walter), a rib out of NBC's venerable Ironside, is a chief of detectives in command of 260 (male) officers...
...Mengers, and I wish you would answer my calls," she twittered gaily, dropping her business card in his soup. Giggles, apologies-and before the evening was over Ewell had signed. She wined and dined Tony Perkins for eight months until he hired her. She pursued Paula Prentiss and Husband Dick Benjamin even through Paula's nervous breakdown, visiting her at the hospital "when no one else would," recalls Benjamin; five years later they signed. Grins former Partner Korman: "She would have made the best Electrolux salesman of them...