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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Faye Dunaway, Argentina. The truth is she never left a book unread in boning up for her role as Evita Perón in a TV movie set to be aired in February. "She came from absolute poverty and created for herself absolute power," reports an admiring Dunaway, 39. "She forged a mystical relationship with the poor in her country. An incredible mixture of instinct and awareness, intelligence and emotion." NBC's four-hour Evita!-First Lady, which co-stars James Farentino, 42, as Dictator Juan Perón, bears little resemblance to the current Broadway musical. Says Dunaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 17, 1980 | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...midterm time, and you say you don't have time to read the sports page because you've got a Gov 20 exam at noon. Just for a minute, though, forget about those last 200 unread pages of "The Civic Culture"--it won't be on the test anyway--and read this column. It's a test too, and it may help get you into the mood...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Name That Team | 10/29/1980 | See Source »

...most famous flameouts (D.W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Erich von Stroheim) and the best-documented veterans (Gloria Swanson, King Vidor, Lillian Gish). Even the trivia somehow does not seem trivial. It is touching to hear Frank Capra recall Mack Sennett's sad mansion full of unread books and overdressed servants. Director Henry Hathaway, who remained active past True Grit (1969), wittily brings back the days when his job was to follow DeMille around with a chair on location. A writer remembers the shock of seeing her credits on a silent version of Macbeth: "By William Shakespeare. Titles by Anita Loos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: While the Parade Went By | 5/5/1980 | See Source »

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