Saturday, 23 October 1993
Saturday, 9 October 1993
SeaQuest DSV in TV Week Magazine
On 9 October 1993 TV Week magazine ran an article on SeaQuest DSV the new Steven Spielberg series that runs on NBC in the States and CTV in Canada. Here is the article:
Friday, 14 May 1993
Wild Palms mini-series in TV Times
On 14 May 1993 the TV Times had a cover article on the upcoming mini-series "Wild Palms". This mini-series is to be broadcast on NBC in the States and CTV in Canada. In Canada the series will be in three two-hour parts running on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. This is the article:
Friday, 7 May 1993
Stephen King's Tommyknockers in TV Times
In the Vancouver Sun's Friday 7 May 1993 issue of TV Times weekly guide was an article on the Sunday & Monday showing of Stephen King's four hour Mini-series Tommyknockers staring Jimmy Smits and Marg Helgenberger. Here is the article:
Thursday, 21 January 1993
Audrey Hepburn, Dead at 63
Audrey Hepburn, the
actress who epitomized Hollywood chic in the 1950's and 60's, died yesterday at
her home in Tolochenaz, near Lausanne ,
Switzerland .
She was 63 years old and had undergone surgery for colon cancer in November.
Her death from
cancer was announced by Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund, for which
she had been a special ambassador since 1988.
In recent years,
she made few movies, but traveled the world raising money and awareness for the
U.N. organization. Her last screen role, in 1989, was a cameo as an angel
easing the hero toward death in Steven Spielberg's "Always," a role
in which the character's grace and serenity echoed the image Miss Hepburn had
maintained throughout a 40-year career. An Oscar for a Princess
Her first major
film role made her a star. In the 1953 romance "Roman Holiday," she
played a princess who runs from her duties and falls in love with a journalist
played by Gregory Peck. Audiences were enchanted by her combination of grace,
elegance and high spirits, and she won an Academy Award as best actress.
The same year she
won her Oscar, she won a Tony for her performance in the play
"Ondine." Bosley Crowther, The New York Times critic, described her
in words that characterized her youthful appeal. He called her "a slender,
elfin and wistful beauty, alternately regal and childlike."
In a string of
films that followed, she continued to play the lithe young thing with stars in
her eyes and the ability to make Cinderella transformations. In
"Sabrina" (1954), she was a chauffeur's daughter forced to choose
between wealthy brothers, played by William Holden and Humphrey Bogart. In
"Funny Face" (1957), opposite Fred Astaire, she played a bookstore
clerk turned high-fashion model.
Descriptions of her
beauty and appeal inevitably included the word "gamine." She was
boyishly slender, with an aristocratic bearing, the trace of a European accent
and a hint of mischief. 'A Wild-Eyed Doe'
Billy Wilder once recalled
directing her in the 1957 film "Love in the Afternoon": "You
looked around and suddenly there was this dazzling creature looking like a
wild-eyed doe prancing in the forest. Everybody on the set was in love within
five minutes."
Among her most popular
and acclaimed roles was that of Holly Golightly, the backwoods beauty turned New York sophisticate in
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" (1961).
At the height of
her career, she worked with such directors as William Wyler and George Cukor
and acted with the great male movie stars of her day, playing the younger woman
opposite Gary Cooper ("Love in the Afternoon"), Cary Grant
("Charade," 1963) and Rex Harrison, in the 1964 movie version of
"My Fair Lady."
There was some
grumbling from the theater world when she was cast as Eliza Doolittle in
"My Fair Lady," winning the role over Julie Andrews, who had
originated it on Broadway. Ms. Hepburn's singing was dubbed in the film by
Marni Nixon. The film won several Oscar nominations, but Miss Hepburn was not
nominated. A Blind Woman Terrorized
Throughout her
career, she also took on dramatic roles. She won an Oscar nomination for the
title role of a woman questioning her vocation in "A Nun's Story' (1959).
She played a woman enduring 20 years of an embattled marriage, opposite Albert
Finney, in "Two for the Road" (1967). And she won her fifth Oscar
nomination for her role as a blind woman terrorized in her own home in
"Wait Until Dark" (1967). Other nominations were for
"Sabrina" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
After "Wait Until Dark," she left
full-time acting and lived mostly in Switzerland .
Miss Hepburn
returned to the screen occasionally. In "Robin and Marian" (1976) she
played the middle-aged Maid Marian to Sean Connery's Robin Hood. The role was
considered the triumph of her later career and a reflection of the graceful way
the actress herself had moved into middle age.
She also made some
poorly received films, including "Bloodline" (1979) amd "They
All Laughed" (1981).
Miss Hepburn, whose
name originally was Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston ,
was born on May 4, 1929, near Brussels , to a
Dutch mother and an English father, and was educated largely in London . During World War
II, she and her mother were caught vacationing in Holland when the Nazis invaded and her family
endured much hardship during the occupation. During the war, one of her
brothers was taken to a labor camp, and an uncle and cousin were executed. She
once said the family was reduced to eating tulip bulbs. Spotted by Colette
But when she
returned to London
after the war, her life took the glamorous turn she would maintain for the rest
of her life. She was a ballet student and model. On the Riviera , she was spotted by the author
Colette, who insisted that Miss Hepburn star in the Broadway version of
"Gigi," which led to "Roman Holiday."
She attributed her
work with Unicef to her childhood experience of hunger and fear during the war.
As Goodwill
ambassador for Unicef she traveled extensively in Africa and Latin
America . She visited Ethiopia during the drought to call
attention to the plight of starving children. In 1991 she described her Unicef
role as "talking my head off," and said, "I just decided to do
as much as possible in the time that I'm still up to it."
Last year she
visited Somalia .
It was shortly after returning from that trip that her cancer was diagnosed.
With Frequent Appearances
Even in her last
years she remained a visible presence in the film world. She received a tribute
from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1991. She was a frequent presenter
at the Academy Awards, and the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts
and Sciences recently announced that she and Elizabeth Taylor would receive the
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award this year.
In 1954, she
married the actor Mel Ferrer (with whom she later co-starred in "War and
Peace.") They were divorced in 1968. In 1969 she married Andrea Dotti, an
Italian psychiatrist, from whom she was later divorced.
Her companion since
1980 was Robert Wolders, a Dutch actor. She is also survived by two sons, Sean,
from her marriage to Mr. Ferrer, and Luca, from her marriage to Dr. Dotti. The
Sprite in Designer Clothing
Audrey Hepburn made
her American stage and screen debuts in 1951, and two years later her gamin
haircut, sylphlike shape and tomboyish but elegant demeanor in "Roman
Holiday" made her a star and won her an Oscar.
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