Word: ritter
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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After playing a sweet young thing opposite Comedian John Ritter in this year's Hero at Large, sultry Anne Archer says she is sinking her teeth into a "character with bite." For Green Ice, a film about murder in the emerald trade that pits her and Ryan O'Neal against Villain Omar Sharif, Archer had to master a loaded gun. "I did well," she laughs. "I learned to hold my right wrist with my left hand, bring the pistol up and shoot right away. My teacher was surprised." And doubtless gave her a blank look...
...upcoming Wholly Moses, a desanctified recast of the biblical story. The premise of the movie is that a second baby, Herschel, was set adrift on the Nile at the same time as Moses. Never mind the hieroglyphic plot; just consider a cast that includes John Houseman, Madeline Kahn, John Ritter, Laraine Newman, James Coco, Jack Gilford, Dom DeLuise and Jack Albertson, along with Richard Pryor in a robes-and-rigamarole cameo as the pharaoh who puts Herschel down. Pryor became ill on the set, and no wonder. Maybe even the actors don't want to look at this movie...
...Tomorrow, I'll be back in the office at 7:50 in the morning and go into a budget meeting at 8:20. I give 8% of my time to charity. I work with Cardinal Cooke; I raised about $300,000 last year for Father Bruce Ritter, who takes the kids off the streets in Times Square, and I'm treasurer of the National Jewish Hospital in Denver...