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...extravagant silhouette, even that car gets competition from the 1930 Mercedes-Benz SSK, customized along almost sinister lines by Italian Count Carlo Felice Trossi. In the '30s it was still common for auto firms to deliver their most luxurious cars merely as a chassis, engine and drive train, sometimes also with a basic body, leaving it to the buyer and his "coach builder" to finish the product along their own lines. With his now forgotten British builder, Trossi crafted a long body with pontoon fenders that ended in tapering points. So did the swelling tongue of the trunk, creating...
Does aging in the music industry scare you? In my 30s it did. If you can hang around till you're 41 and not frighten people when you walk in the room...
...tortuous translations from the pseudo-Cantonese ("It is the hope that Su Lin was of small help to Mr. Williams"), Eleven years later she was another housekeeper in the Ross Hunter production Portrait in Black, this time supporting Anthony Quinn, who had done small roles in her late-30s Paramount films. Now he was the famous name and she the filler. (Also in 1960, Quinn starred as an Inuit in Nicholas Ray's The Savage Innocents - opposite another actress, Marie Yang, who in this film was billed as Anna May Wong! It may be the only instance of an actor...
...veteran performers in the 50s, Wong found more work on the small screen than the large. She hosted a 13-week series, The Gallery of Madame Liu Tsong (her Chinese name), for the Dumont network in 1951, and in 1957 hosted an ABC evening of film clips from the 30s trip to China, called Bold Journey. She did guest spots on The Barbara Stanwyck Show and Adventures in Paradise. In 1956 she got a long-deferred chance to play a role she lost out on in Hollywood: as the Asian blackmailer in Somerset Maugham's The Letter. The director...
...stages, and somewhat less long and hard in the earliest stage. If that’s right (and I agree with our president that such claims should be backed by data, not hunches), then a system that tenures people on the basis of their productivity in their 20s and 30s will produce a fair number of tenured faculty who, in their 50s and 60s, slow down or turn their attention to secondary pursuits...