Film: The Goodbye Girl (1977). Young Actress: Quinn Cummings, 9.A romantic comedy with a very dated feel to it. Quinn earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role as Lucy, the wisecracking daughter -- a fact that quite surprised me when I watched it, since I saw nothing Oscar-worthy about her performance. Quinn is cute, but her delivery ( Read more... )

A recent article from one of my favorite magazines, The Week, on former child star Maureen McCormick's autobiography:

"She was America's most wholesome girl," said Philippe Naughton in The Times Online, "so who would ever have thought that Marcia Brady would end up as a drug addict, partying at Sammy Davis Jr.'s house and the Playboy Mansion, and ( Read more... )