Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offices of justice are slow to act, Harvard men may be forced to respond to the words of Gabby Spinoza: "Why wait for the law? Let's string...
...story of the Southerner who came up to me and said: 'Loved your playing. I had a Negro mammy myself.' I snarled back, 'So did I.' " She had trouble with café owners, lost much of her following, finally decided she had better change her act. Says Dorothy: "Instead of just sitting there and playing, I've added personality. I feel I'm a new Dorothy Donegan...
...successful that she has a contract with the Embers (through 1961) that brings her $2,000 a week and calls for two eight-week stints a year. This sort of payoff has drawn her to the attention of Internal Revenue men who argue that her gyrations constitute a cabaret act, that the club ought to pay the 20% entertainment tax rather than the 3% charged for purely instrumental gaiety. "If I had to stop groaning," Dorothy groans, "I'd be out of business." So a compromise was arranged. "I can still wriggle as long as I keep within...
...Naked and the Dead, in which Stripper Lili St. Cyr gets about halfway through her act before the cops raid the joint. (Article V, Section 1: "Dances suggesting sexual actions are . . . obscene...
...while he does not hesitate to shake up history himself, he hates to see amateur head shrinkers steal his act. "The psychological western is nonsense," he insists. "I think the western has to be honest. You kill the heavy in the end; you don't haul him off to the psychiatrist. Like I was watching Gunsmoke and there is this woman who is brutalized by a couple of heavies and she gets rescued and all she wants to do is go off to the city and become a prostitute and lead a good life. Can you imagine that? These...