Word: spinsterish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broadway in November, the revival does not overawe her. "I don't think very much about what is dangerous or not," says the former sex symbol. "I can't panic. I don't have the time." To make her task even more unaccustomed, she chose to play the spinsterish New Englander, Hannah, and turned down the saucier part of Maxine, the innkeeper. Does she miss those earlier seductive roles? "Time has passed," she says, seemingly without regret...
...view subscription and cable systems and opened it at 91 moviehouses around the country. It was the first time that a premiering film had also been released on television. The result was akin to the reaction of Frederic, the apprentice pirate in the operetta, upon discovering that his spinsterish nursemaid is not the ideal of female pulchritude: disappointment...