Word: actress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably thought he was being gracious rather than oracular. But the man generally acknowledged as the greatest actor of his age in the English- speaking world proved as inspired in his fortune-telling as in his art: the infant born on Jan. 30, 1937, has ripened into the greatest actress in the English-speaking world. Her trophies include the Oscar, the Emmy and London's equivalent of Broadway's Tony (appositely named for Olivier). She also has a prize even more important to her: the awestruck regard of virtually everyone in her craft...
...achieves such artless naturalness, fellow actors gather to scrutinize her work. Says writer-director David Hare, who starred Redgrave in his movie Wetherby: "She's the one they all watch. Vanessa has an access to her feelings without parallel. She is the least flustered, most completely focused actress; she barely needs to study a part...
...employment problems began on the night in 1978 when she accepted an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress for Julia. As militant Jewish groups picketed outside to denounce a pro-Palestinian documentary film she had financed by selling her house in Britain, Redgrave injudiciously responded in a speech telecast worldwide. In words aimed at the protesters, she told Academy voters, "You have stood firm and refused to be intimidated by a small band of Zionist hoodlums who have insulted Jews all over the world in their struggle against fascism and Nazism." Heard out of context, the phrase gave birth...
Pair of Shues: The Columbia marching band rated Harvard the number-one cultural icon that Senator Jesse Helms will censor in the name of decency, but one of our most popular icons showed up at the Lions' den last Saturday. Elisabeth Shue '88-'90--the actress best known for her starring roles in Cocktail, Adventures in Babysitting and The Karate Kid--braved the rain to watch her brother John and the men's soccer team take on Columbia. She said she was disappointed with John's limited playing time, but still plans to catch several games this season...
...Billy Crystal) and precise Sally (Meg Ryan) in the Manhattan of your dreams, at the beginning of a beautiful friendship. But are they aware that falling in like can be as dangerous as falling in love? Reiner, who based the film partly on his life after being divorced from actress Penny Marshall, thinks he knows: "People say, 'Vive la difference,' but it's more like a cruel joke created by God. Men and women desperately want to be with each other, but at the same time they can't stand each other and don't understand each other...