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...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...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Searching for Norma Jeane | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Years of Living Splendidly | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

...much was the "High Heel Coordinator" paid? She was the person in charge of keeping plenty of spiked shoes on hand at Governor's Island in case a starlet or two, or even Nancy Reagan, broke a heel...

Author: By Jennifer M. Oconnor, | Title: Missing the Point | 7/8/1986 | See Source »

...names of these exotic sirens are . . . Phoebe Cates and Jennifer Beals. From the go-slow huts of socialist Burma to the go-go bars of socializing Bangkok, the hands-down pinups of Southeast Asia are the Yale flashdancer with exactly two movies to her credit and the pouting young starlet from Private School. Farrah, Christie, even local actresses hardly get a look-in. Unlike many American fan letters, reports Cates, "the ones from Thailand are all so sweet and complimentary." Ah, the blunders of the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrities Who Travel Well | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

Ronis: (Laughing, in the voice of aHollywood starlet) Yes! Trust in God, which somepeople deal with. (end block quotation...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: A Tale of Two Actors | 6/4/1986 | See Source »

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