According to Duffy, the TV movie Enola Gay (named after the fateful plane) deals more with the decision to make the “big bang” and the mission itself than with the aftermath. Paul Tibets-best known as the man who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. Aside from the kickin’, scratchin’ and gougin’ of Dallas, Duffy gets to show a more serious dramatic side of himself in the fall when he appears as Second World War pilot Col. Bobby is, of course, the victim of Dallas nasties who try to co-opt him into their nasty practices until honesty overrides greed. Ti^^allas is a pivotal point in my cal#reer, but not a high-water mark,” says Patrick Duffy, best known to millions as nice-guy Bobby Ewing on the super-soap that has the whole world asking, “Who shot J.R.?” Duffy won’t say, but he’s busy presiding over Bobby’s fall from grace next season asīobby moves to head the Ewing business while Larry Hagman’s J.R. Pomerantz remained noncommittal: “I wouldn’t do anything to embarrass my family.” Winters then moved on to other topics-movies that she wants to make in Canada. This man wants to give us money to do a picture,” brayed Winters when mild-mannered funny man, lawyer and potential film producer Hart Pomerantz requested an address for script mailing. According to Winters, 56, she passed over and under the sheets of Burt Lancaster, John Ireland, Errol Flynn, Marlon Brando and William Holden (but Holden only on Christmas Eves). In the book, the former Shirley Schrift of Brooklyn strips herself of any mystery that could remain around a woman who has made more than 100 movies. Harried Shelley Winters as she stopped off in Toronto to promote the first half of her autobiography, Shelley. I’m running half an hour behind schedule and if I don’t get out of this room soon I’ll have to pay another $8,000,” hollered Watson admits she would like to be landing Sissy Spacek-type roles and is not interested in cultivating a sexy image because, “I can talk.”įf JL man’s coming up here to finance Msome pictures in Canada. In her current film, Misdeal, Watson plays a boutique operator whose boy-friend (played by John Heard) gets caught up in a drug-smuggling caper. “At the beginning I was always cast as the dark-haired quiet one,” explains the sultry five-foot, nine-inch actress, “but now I get to do more than just talk with my eyes.” She made her movie debut as a sensual chanteuse in the steamy 1978 Canadian export In Praise of Older Women, and last year played a Mafia moll in Dirty Tricks with Elliott Gould and Kate Jackson. Now completing work on her sixth movie job, Watson’s roles are getting better and her name’s getting around in the movie industry. She walked away, flabbergasted, with the lead role.
When she was 19 and broke, Alberta Watson sauntered into a CBC audition hoping to land a bit part.