Word: satins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...often demanded that her theatrical fees be paid in gold. "I feel I know her," says Jackson, on the set of Sarah. "She refused to be stifled or live her life to other people's conventions." The Divine Sarah, in fact, liked to take naps in a satin-lined coffin to remind herself of life's transience. Jackson has no qualms about repeating that scene. Says she: "I've been in coffins before, starting from when I played Ophelia...
...theatre during the intermission and at the end of the play. "Help, I need somebody," "Yesterday came suddenly," sang the Beatles. "Bye, bye, Miss American pie," sang Don MacLean. Robert Patrick, who in press photographs wears a Wallace Beery shirt and wornout overalls, pranced around in a white satin workshirt watching his play, along with a suit-and-tie audience whose mean...
Later in the program he was onstage alone in Vestris, a ballet created for him by Leningrad's Leonid Jacobson in 1969. The subject of this seven-minute solo is Auguste Vestris, a famous 18th century dancer and mime. In a powdered wig and white satin tunic, Baryshnikov went through a kaleidoscope of quicksilver impressions - an old man dancing a minuet, a woman praying, a girl flirting. It was funny. It was sad. Then it was funny again. It was acting of the highest order...
...singer (TIME, March 17); and Gregg Allman, 27, lead singer-organist with the Allman Brothers rock band; he for the third time, she for the second; three days after divorcing her former TV partner, Sonny Bono; in Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. Wearing an ice blue satin gown, teetotaler Cher downed a Coca-Cola toast to her new husband. The groom's down-home grandmother, Myrtle Allman, 74, sounded pleased-more or less. "I'm sure I'll love her," she said, then added that it would be nice if Cher "started wearing some more...
...kind of schlock-rock life led by Elton John, 27, was bound to age him fast. Still, his fans may be startled to see him looking like a grizzled ancient in his forthcoming appearance on the Cher TV special. Wearing a satin-lapelled dressing gown and high-heeled clunkers, John plays a senile rock-'n'-roller incarcerated in a rest home along with an equally decayed Bette Midler and Flip Wilson. John's eyeglasses, a particular fetish, are surprisingly modest. Of his 100 pairs, he has chosen tinted aviators, rather than the giant shades even larger than...