Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once upon a time in a glittery kingdom called Tinseltown, a fey and clever actress dreamed of producing her very own fairy tales. She would get all of her famous friends to appear and pay them beans, though not magical ones. But the mighty wizards and warlocks of Tinseltown scoffed...
Well, with a bit of sorcery and even more business acumen, Shelley Duvall, 34, has turned her fantasy into video reality. She is executive producer and guiding spirit of Faerie Tale Theatre, a series of hour-long classics featuring marquee names, which has become a popular and critical success on...
In Sleeping Beauty, Christopher (Superman) Reeve is a goody-goody prince, a sort of prissy Cary Grant in a mail doublet. Bernadette Peters casts her spell as the princess who responds a mite too ardently to his wake-up kiss. The two also play their evil doppelgängers, giving...
Like most fairy tales, this one will have a blithe ending. Duvall plans to expand the series to a total of at least 26 shows. Then they will live on happily ever after in syndication.
DIVORCED. Patricia Neal, 57, Oscar-winning actress (Hud, 1963), and Roald Dahl, 66, British author of macabre short stories (Switch Bitch) and wry children's tales (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory); after 30 years of marriage, five children; in London. Dahl's affair with one of his wife...