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Scottish Sun
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
Seventies pin-up unrecognizable 43 years after hitting out at hit show that sacked her – can you guess who she is?
She was a teen star who went onto work behind the camera HIDDEN STAR Seventies pin-up unrecognizable 43 years after hitting out at hit show that sacked her – can you guess who she is? Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) SHE was the first face of Charlie girl perfume after joining TV's most glamorous crime-fighting trio. Nowadays she's enjoying retirement and living a low-key life in Connecticut. Sign up for the Entertainment newsletter Sign up 8 One of TV's most famous pinnups is living a quieter life away from Hollywood Credit: 8 The former teenage model and seventies legend was spotted shopping in Connecticut Credit: 8 Shelley Hack joined the show in series four 8 Shelley, pictured right, with Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd Credit: Disney General Entertainment Con 8 Shelley hit out at Charlie's Angels - and went on to have a successful career in Hollywood Credit: Alamy Charlie's Angels legend Shelley Hack was spotted out shopping dressed down in a cosy fleece and black trousers. Life now is a far cry from the fashion flair of the seventies and her on-screen alter ego Tiffany Welles. Shelley joined hit show Charlie's Angels in 1979 as a replacement for original Angel, Kate Jackson. But her stint lasted just one season before she was dropped amid slumping ratings. A the time, Shelley didn't hold back in her criticism of the show's bosses. She claimed her axe wasn't about talent but telly politics. Shelley said in a statement: "They can say I didn't work out, but it isn't true. "What happened was a network war. A business decision was made. "Change the timeslot or bring on some new publicity. How to get publicity? A new Angel hunt. Seventies movie legend Julie Christie seen for the first time in eight years as she shops with her husband in London "Who is the obvious person to replace? I am — the new kid on the block." Shelley was then replaced by Bond girl Tanya Roberts in season five. While her Angel wings may have been clipped early, Shelley didn't disappear from showbiz. The former teenage model starred in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy and cult horror flick The Stepfather. She continued to carve out a career behind the scenes, producing feel-good Hallmark Channel movies through the 2010s. Shelley married film director and university professor Harry Winer in 1990. Together they co-own production company Smash Media, working on Hallmark movies together. The couple have one child, daughter Devon Rose Winer. 8 She was a teenage model before joining the show Credit: Getty 8 Season Four stars pictured in 1979, Shelley Hack, Jaclyn Smith, David Doyle and Cheryl Ladd Credit: Disney General Entertainment Con
The Irish Sun
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Seventies pin-up unrecognizable 43 years after hitting out at hit show that sacked her – can you guess who she is?
SHE was the first face of Charlie girl perfume after joining TV's most glamorous crime-fighting trio. Nowadays she's enjoying retirement and living a low-key life in Connecticut. 8 One of TV's most famous pinnups is living a quieter life away from Hollywood Credit: 8 The former teenage model and seventies legend was spotted shopping in Connecticut Credit: 8 Shelley Hack joined the show in series four 8 Shelley, pictured right, with Jaclyn Smith and Cheryl Ladd Credit: Disney General Entertainment Con 8 Shelley hit out at Charlie's Angels - and went on to have a successful career in Hollywood Credit: Alamy Charlie's Angels legend Shelley Hack was spotted out shopping dressed down in a cosy fleece and black trousers. Life now is a far cry from the fashion flair of the seventies and her on-screen alter ego Tiffany Welles. Shelley joined hit show Charlie's Angels in 1979 as a replacement for original Angel, Kate Jackson. But her stint lasted just one season before she was dropped amid slumping ratings. READ MORE ON SEVENTIES A the time, Shelley didn't hold back in her criticism of the show's bosses. She claimed her axe wasn't about talent but telly politics. Shelley said in a statement: "They can say I didn't work out, but it isn't true. "What happened was a network war. A business decision was made. Most read in Celebrity "Change the timeslot or bring on some new publicity. How to get publicity? A new Angel hunt. Seventies movie legend Julie Christie seen for the first time in eight years as she shops with her husband in London "Who is the obvious person to replace? I am — the new kid on the block." Shelley was then replaced by While her Angel wings may have been clipped early, Shelley didn't disappear from showbiz. The former teenage model starred in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy and cult horror flick The Stepfather. She continued to carve out a career behind the scenes, producing feel-good Hallmark Channel movies through the 2010s. Shelley married film director and university professor Harry Winer in 1990. Together they co-own production company Smash Media, working on Hallmark movies together. The couple have one child, daughter Devon Rose Winer. 8 She was a teenage model before joining the show Credit: Getty 8 Season Four stars pictured in 1979, Shelley Hack, Jaclyn Smith, David Doyle and Cheryl Ladd Credit: Disney General Entertainment Con 8 Shelley was the first face of Revlon's Charlie perfume
The Sun
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Seventies pin-up unrecognizable 43 years after hitting out at hit show that sacked her – can you guess who she is?
SHE was the first face of Charlie girl perfume after joining TV's most glamorous crime-fighting trio. Nowadays she's enjoying retirement and living a low-key life in Connecticut. 8 8 8 Charlie's Angels legend Shelley Hack was spotted out shopping dressed down in a cosy fleece and black trousers. Life now is a far cry from the fashion flair of the seventies and her on-screen alter ego Tiffany Welles. Shelley joined hit show Charlie's Angels in 1979 as a replacement for original Angel, Kate Jackson. But her stint lasted just one season before she was dropped amid slumping ratings. A the time, Shelley didn't hold back in her criticism of the show's bosses. She claimed her axe wasn't about talent but telly politics. Shelley said in a statement: "They can say I didn't work out, but it isn't true. "What happened was a network war. A business decision was made. "Change the timeslot or bring on some new publicity. How to get publicity? A new Angel hunt. Seventies movie legend Julie Christie seen for the first time in eight years as she shops with her husband in London "Who is the obvious person to replace? I am — the new kid on the block." Shelley was then replaced by Bond girl Tanya Roberts in season five. While her Angel wings may have been clipped early, Shelley didn't disappear from showbiz. The former teenage model starred in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy and cult horror flick The Stepfather. She continued to carve out a career behind the scenes, producing feel-good Hallmark Channel movies through the 2010s. Shelley married film director and university professor Harry Winer in 1990. Together they co-own production company Smash Media, working on Hallmark movies together. The couple have one child, daughter Devon Rose Winer. 8 8 8
New York Times
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Magazine Dreams' Review: Pain Without Gain
Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors) has one goal in life: to be the greatest bodybuilder on Earth. His focus is so single-minded that he has little else to talk about. About a third of the way into 'Magazine Dreams,' the shy Killian, having finally worked up the courage to ask, takes Jessie (Haley Bennett), his colleague at a supermarket, on a date. It doesn't go well. At the restaurant, Killian startles Jessie with his casual disclosure of his mother's violent death. ('Someone killed her. My dad did. He shot her and then he shot himself. That's why they're both dead.') He orders enough protein to feed a platoon. Then he regales her with details of his regimen and his fear that others don't respect him. 'I'm going to place and get my pro card,' he tells Jessie. 'Then I bet they won't just walk by me.' The too-briefly-seen Bennett has the Cybill Shepherd role in this strained effort to make 'Taxi Driver' for bodybuilders. On the evidence, the writer-director, Elijah Bynum, has also studied Scorsese's other work, particularly 'The King of Comedy' (Killian writes obsessive letters to an idol who has made the cover of Men's Health) and the Steadicam march to the boxing ring in 'Raging Bull.' Bynum supplies his own version of that shot midway through, when Killian, having just been savagely beaten by a group of men whose store he has wrecked, arrives at a bodybuilding competition still bloody. In a single, fluid camera movement, Killian enters the building and takes the stage, flexing his muscles and visibly struggling to grin through his pain. It's an impressive show of bravado from both the actor and the director, albeit in a way that makes it difficult to tell who's swaggering more — the character or the filmmaker. 'Magazine Dreams' bludgeons viewers to show off its sensitivity. Bynum piles on the misery in increasingly bogus ways. As big as Killian is, he has thin skin from the time a judge told him his deltoids were too small. He's too naïve to realize that posting a video of his training online will invite nasty comments. After he crashes his car, a doctor informs him that he needs surgery. 'I can't have a scar,' Killian replies. 'I'm a bodybuilder. Bodybuilders can't have scars.' Perhaps at a loss as to how to resolve the drama in a less hackneyed manner, Bynum adds guns. This macho posturing was apparent when 'Magazine Dreams' played in January 2023 at the Sundance Film Festival, where Oscar prognosticators name-checked Majors as an awards contender. Actorly transformations into laconic, bulked-up, emotionally concussed giants are tough to resist. But the movie became damaged goods two months later when Majors was arrested and charged with assaulting and harassing his girlfriend at the time, Grace Jabbari. Majors, who denied the accusations, was found guilty on two of four counts that December and sentenced to probation and a year of domestic violence counseling. Now 'Magazine Dreams' arrives in theaters much later than originally planned, with a new distributor and some unfortunate real-life echoes. The first significant dialogue is spoken by a counselor (Harriet Sansom Harris), who tells Killian, 'The state has mandated these sessions because they're worried about your aggression.' (In a movie pumped with testosterone, Harris and Bennett are vital presences; Taylour Paige has the only other significant female role, as a prostitute.) Prone to outbursts, Killian has a go-to threat: 'I'm going to split your skull open and drink your brains like soup.' The line is meant to sound overwrought, but only a screenwriter could be amused.
