Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon's role in the Watergate coverup: "I had expected to find all sorts of wrongdoing by his aides, conduct unbecoming and even criminal, but it had never occurred to me that the President was in the driver's seat...
...kind of pleasure of limited responsibility," muses Francois Truffaut, 44, considering his film role in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Having coped with heavier duties as a director (Jules and Jim, The Story of Adele H.), Truffaut is now appearing in his first American movie as an actor, under the direction of Steven Spielberg, 28, Hollywood's hottest prodigy (Jaws). The new film, which depicts an encounter between earthlings and extraterrestrial beings, is being shot in elaborate secrecy at an abandoned Air Force hangar in Mobile, Ala. So far the secrecy seems to suit Spielberg just fine. "Directing...
After playing a twelve-year-old hooker in Taxi Driver, a child murderess in Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane and a gangster's moll in Bugsy Malone, Actress Jodie Foster is finally cleaning up her act. Her new role: a tomboy heiress in a Walt Disney kid flick titled Candleshoe. Now on location at Stratford-upon-Avon, Foster has been skate boarding for fun and profiting from her work on the set with Co-Stars David Niven and Helen Hayes. "I don't feel comfortable working with children," pipes Foster, 13, who appeared with some...
...like them onstage, you'll love them on the screen. At least that's the hope of moviemakers who are now trying to turn ballet stars into box office draws at the cinema. In Spain, Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, 38, has stepped into the role of legendary screen lover in Ken Russell's film Valentino. His sole dancing assignment in the film: a 1920s tango. At the same time in New York, fellow Kirov Defector Mikhail Baryshnikov has tried a few lines of his own in The Turning Point, a ballet movie featuring Misha, 28, and Leslie Browne...
Glamorous Roles. "In a way," says Carr, "I am like a career doctor. I look at somebody, and I become an analyst of everything from what they wear to what they want out of the business." What Nancy Walker wanted was her own show. "Would two years be good enough?" asked Allan. When he heard that Producer Norman Lear "had a fantasy about doing a series concerning a show-biz lady," he got Walker the starring role-the series is called The Nancy Walker Show and will premiere next month. At the moment, Carr is helping Ann-Margret shed...