Word: spacek
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane crash in 1959. The next couple of years will loose a flood of screen biographies. Filming is completed on Heart Beat, the story of the three-way romance of Beat Generation Heroes Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac and Cassady's wife Carolyn. Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek play the Cassadys, and John Heard is the author of that hipster bible On the Road...
...spooky, spaced-out waif of Carrie and 3 Women is growing up-and dressing up. "I love to get all duded up. It's one of the real me's," says Sissy Spacek, 28, who struts about in diamonds and furs for her first role as a mature woman in Heart Beat. The movie tells the story of the late Beat author Jack Kerouac and of Neal Cassady, a onetime car thief and the model for Dean Moriarty in Kerouac's 1957 novel On the Road. Spacek plays Carolyn, a well-bred commercial artist who is married...
...film is an adaptation of a Paul Gallico story about a fledgling song-and-dance woman (Sissy Spacek) who enlists in a second-rate U.S.O. troupe during World War II. A shy orphan with a sweet smile and no discernible talent, Verna fervently believes that a U.S.O. tour overseas will speed her way to superstardom. She even imagines that Rodgers and Hammerstein will write her a musical after the war and promises her fellow troupers supporting roles. Though her pulpy fantasies of fame and fortune are ludicrously out of reach, her brave self-confidence wins over her battered G.I. audiences...
...production. Despite his limited budget, Director Ronald F. Maxwell has not stinted on important details: he shot the war scenes on location in Europe and enlisted Broadway Choreographer Donald Saddler and Burlesque Comic Joey Faye to help create the vaudeville numbers. Maxwell's casting is precise. Spacek, playing a spiritual sister of the lost souls she acted in Badlands and 3 Women, is diaphanously vulnerable, but also makes a fine clown in her off-pitch songs. William Hurt, her awkward military suitor, is sensitive and attractive in the scenes where he tries to shield Verna from the horrors...
Womack's image will move across the silver screen tonight at the Central Square Cinema, when he makes a cameo appearance in the popular 1974 film "Badlands," starring Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen and Warren Oates...