Word: starlet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...names have changed but the song remains the same. Prince, also short and mysterious, is the man with the vision. Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Jesse Johnson, Wendy Melvoin, and Lisa Coleman are among the visionary's close-knit circle of talented friends. Unlikely Minneapolis is the setting and unknown starlet types, mostly Prince's girlfriends, have turned into recording "artists" like Vanity, Appolonia, and Sheila...
...nationally televised benefit concert billed as "Oral Aid." The first act features Oral's fellow evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker of the PTL (Plenty of Terrific Limosines) Ministry. They arrive in separate rescue limos. Reporters rush to Jim's limosine when the chauffeur opens the car door to help starlet "Charo...
Women in the porn industry are playing a role in modifying the product. Female stars, who once seemed willing to do almost anything onscreen that was not fatal, are now wary of mistreatment. Newcomer Barbara Dare (Deep Throat Girls, 10 1/2 Weeks), named the best new porn starlet of 1987 in two polls, says she will not take part in anal sex or bondage and subjugation. "There's a lot of bad stuff out there and a lot of beatings," says Dare. "I would never do that. I do couples films." Seka, a porn star who now directs and produces...
...pool in back of the Los Angeles home she purchased with her own earnings, the house in which she was to die alone. We also see a woman who was no stranger to the casting couch, who occasionally prostituted herself to earn money during her days as a budding starlet and who had more abortions, at least a dozen, than she did orgasms, probably none...
...gave her sexy roles. Sigourney played a murderous multiple schizophrenic Electra figure in Durang's Titanic, a woman who dates a bisexual analysand in Beyond Therapy. Together they wrote and performed Das Lusitania Songspiel, a deliciously rancid Brecht-meets-Broadway parody, and Naked Lunch, a fake interview with Voracious Starlet Sigourney Weaver that, in expanded form, may soon be a major motion picture. "She is a very strong collaborator," says Durang. "The furthest-out ideas come from Sigourney. I, however, type faster." Of their paldom, Weaver says, "We have so much fun ( together. Our friendship is in a class...