Word: saint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Waltz). Now comes The Buddy Holly Story, a biopic about the pioneer rocker who died in a plane crash at age 22 in 1959. In many ways this film resembles the rest of the crop: it is rousing, if imperfect entertainment that treats its hero as a full-fledged saint. But in box office terms, The Buddy
...machismo--as when, on exclaiming of Olivia, "She loves me sure," she girlishly claps her hands over her face, or repeatedly swoons at the prospect of having to duel with Sir Andrew. Her performance perhaps owes something to her recent portrayal of another witty and manly woman, Shaw's Saint Joan. It is possibly no coincidence that the supreme traversal of both Viola and Saint Joan were given, in the late '50s, by Siobhan McKenna...
DIED. James Daly, 59, character actor who is currently being seen as Dr. Paul Lochner in reruns of TV's Medical Center; following a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y. Daly managed to sustain an active Broadway career (Saint Joan, Billy Budd, J.B.) while garnering more than 600 television credits, primarily in adventure shows (The F.B.I., Mission: Impossible...
...prospect pleases the Dior staff, which has seen the firm's profits sink year after year into the bottomless Boussac pit. Partly as a result, Dior has not had resources to invest in new products and outlets needed to keep from falling behind such dynamic competitors as Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Cardin...
...final agony of Grandier's death throes, the most frustrating question of all arises: was he all along a male Saint Joan, a martyr not so much to God but to mankind's inability to receive and for give its authentic saints? Nicholas Pennell's Grandier makes the transition from seductive charmer to skeptic to nail-pierced witness of faith with ever mounting authority. Martha Henry is not as lucky with her Sister Jeanne. She seems more like a closet loony than a woman overwhelmed by a powerful but long-suppressed sexuality...