Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yankee Doodle Dandy. Cagney's favorite role, says he in his autobiography. He good taste. You could watch this eight times a week on Million Dollar Movie and never get tired of it, especially the Cohan dance numbers. It's filled with stock Warner Brothers actors, not to mention the great Walter Huston and somebody who does an uncanny Franklin Roosevelt imitation. The movie's disregard for Cohan's real personality makes no difference. He was a patriot, and patriotism is never out of style...
...Bionic Woman's most impressive feat may have been the deal she wrung out of Universal, the show's producer. Her contract gives her $500,000 a year for five years, a guarantee of one film role annually and 12½% of the take from sales of Bionic dolls, T shirts and other spinoffs, which her agent insists could total as much as $2 million. Only last fall, Wagner, 26, was having trouble at Universal, which decided not to renew a $50,000-a-year contract she then had with the studio. Although she was considered "promising...
Chomsky, a professor of Linguistics at MIT and one of those included on President Nixon's list of "undesirables," discussed his role as an anti-war activist...
...part of Garry is a vehicle for a captivating actor to play up to the audience. Coward himself played the part--which he claimed as his "favorite"--when the play opened in England in 1942. Alden Wentworth Watson fills the role well enough, though his characterization is somewhat lacking in variation and nuance...
...rely on their doctors to really tell them what was going on in their bodies. The women's movement had only just begun to receive national publicity in 1969, and most of the members were already married, many say they were already beginning to fill the traditional women's role. But that first meeting blossomed into a desire to explore the area of women's health care, and the group started teaching an evening course at the YWCA...