Word: silkwoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Oswald, the program has no script and (except for extras) uses no actors. Two prominent attorneys were enlisted to argue the case. For the prosecution: Vincent Bugliosi, 52, the former Los , Angeles deputy district attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson. For the defense: Gerry Spence, 57, who successfully represented Karen Silkwood's family in a suit against the Kerr-McGee Corp. Lucius Bunton, 61, a U.S. district judge from Texas, was selected to preside, and a jury was chosen from the Dallas jury rolls. (Oswald is represented by an empty chair.) All of them were flown to London for the three...
...truculent husband and a few brushes with disaster. A remake of Loretta Lynn and Coal Miner's Daughter? No, this is Patsy Cline and Sweet Dreams. Spacek plays a Southern working-class mother fighting high-level corruption. Wait a minute: that's Norma Rae, or maybe Silkwood. No, this year they're calling it Marie. Not to be confused with a Close comedy called Maxie, which opened the same...
Writer Nora Ephron is two for eight on the big screen. The first success was Silkwood, which she co-wrote with Alice Arlen. Now a second Ephron script is being produced: Heartburn, based on her own best seller, which leaves her twelve movies behind her parents, Phoebe and Henry Ephron (Desk Set, Carousel). "For me to get 14 films made," says Ephron, "at my current rate of about one in four, I'd have to write 56 scripts and live to be 132. When they show the name of the studio at the beginning of a film, it should...
...Cher made her theatre debut in the Broadway production of Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean." After starring in the movie "Silkwood" last years Chet will have her first starring role this year in the film "Mask...
...flamboyant North Carolina film producer Earl Owensby who already owns one studio in Shelby, N.C., is building another: an ambitious 426-acre facility in Myrtle Beach, S.C., which also includes a theme park. Texas, which last year yielded a bumper crop of Academy Award-nominated films-Terms of Endearment, Silkwood and Tender Mercies-boasts a new 20-acre communications complex just west of Dallas that has state-of-the-art production facilities. Moreover, ground has recently been broken for what is billed as the largest sound stage in the world, 22 miles northeast of Houston...