Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WOMEN. Following a long spell of small parts, women actresses at last seem to be coming into their own again. Shooting will soon begin on Judith Rossner's bestseller Looking for Mr. Goodbar, directed by Richard Brooks and starring Tuesday Weld and Diane Keaton. Sissy Spacek, Shelley Duvall and Janice Rule form the trio in Three Women, a film that Director Robert Altman says, somewhat obscurely, is based on one of his dreams. Equally mysterious, although for different reasons, is Demon Seed. In that science-fiction thriller Julie Christie is impregnated-don't ask how-by a computer...
...unclaimed trunk and turned up one of the literary finds of the century. Among the treasures: an original copy of the third canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by Davies' pal Lord Byron; early manuscripts of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley; and two possibly unpublished poems by Shelley. Also scattered in the trunk were some 14 letters from Byron, including a complaint that he had picked up another dose of gonorrhea...
...result of the meeting was the formation of the Association of Black Radcliffe Women (ABRW), Shelley Anderson '77, chairwoman of ABRW, explains, because the women decided to take it upon themselves to put together a group that would be responsive to their particular needs. More specifically, she says, the women hoped to provide a catalyst for bringing black women together and a supportive force for individual and collective pursuits...
...Oscar Wolfe, the family's long-suffering theatrical manager, forever hoping to salvage some remnant of his sanity and his job out of the daily chaos of the Cavendish household. Julie Cavendish, the majestic daughter of Fanny and current prima donna of the theater, is played by Carole Shelley, with Leonard Frey as her brother Tony Cavendish, the impossible, flamboyant movie star who is obviously John Barrymore...
Rites of Passage, the portmanteau title for three short films about the painful passing of adolescence, is a decidedly mixed blessing. Most prominently, the program offers two splendid performances. In Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Shelley Duvall brings a graceful vulnerability and unguarded beauty to the role of an ugly-duckling adolescent who is first encouraged in social flirtations, then undone by an attractive, more popular cousin. Director Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street) misses the stronger undercurrents of F. Scott Fitzgerald's original story, just as Novice Director Peter Werner is defeated by the portentous gothic glooms of the Joyce...