Word: stapleton
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...actresses who have played Amanda, from Laurette Taylor to Gertrude Lawrence to Helen Hayes, Shirley Booth, Maureen Stapleton and Katharine Hepburn, none brings more impressive credentials to the role than Jessica Tandy. In 1947, she was the first Blanche Dubois; now, at 74, she is playing Williams' first great cracked Southern belle. A generation too old for the part, she strides through the play on the assurance of her craft. Tandy's Amanda is flinty, not flighty; a hawk, not a dithery dove; a bustling den mother, not a senescent teenager who treats the gentleman caller to some...
DIED. Ruth Carter Stapleton, 54, evangelist and practitioner of "inner healing," who was instrumental in the 1966 spiritual rebirth of her elder brother, former President Jimmy Carter; of pancreatic cancer; in Fayetteville, N.C. A self-described "catalyst for God," the ebullient, unordained born-again Christian minister suffered a severe depression in the late '50s after the births of her four children and a car accident. Crediting her recovery to God, she mixed prayer with psychology to heal troubled or afflicted believers. After she learned of her terminal disease five months ago, Stapleton refused conventional medical treatment, saying, "I have...
...nation's second-largest pay-television service. Showtime, with 4 million-plus subscribers, is currently airing the sixth of her fanciful tales, The Sleeping Beauty, and plans to show three more by the end of the year. So far, Duvall has enticed Joan Collins, Elliott Gould, Maureen Stapleton and Mick Jagger into such unlikely vehicles as Hansel and Gretel and Jack and the Beanstalk...
...nervous CBS first aired All in the Family. Archie, Wife Edith, Daughter Gloria and Son-in-Law Mike were a nuclear family born out of fission as they grappled with such TV taboos as racism, impotence, abortion, rape, homosexuality and alcoholism. When the three other principals (played by Jean Stapleton, 58, Sally Struthers, 34, and Rob Reiner, 38) left, O'Connor, 57, bought a neighborhood bar and turned it and the show into Archie Bunker's Place. But times had changed, and with few social bubbles left to burst, the program drifted into a tame sitcom limbo that...
...Dave Stapleton capped a five-run first inning with a three-run homer and Dwight Evans added a two-run shot in the fourth yesterday to power the Boston Red Sox to a 7-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays...