Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spring of '61, Mark Mirsky wanted to stage The Jew of Malta, but it was rejected by the Faculty Committee, ostensibly because of the difficulty of finding a lead actor. Unofficially, HDC members speculated that fear of incurring outside criticism had been the real reason for the committee's acton...
...Democrats ran notably dull campaigns in New York, Illinois, Michigan and California, committed a few grievous gaffes along the way. None was worse than a scene in the 30-minute campaign film in which Pat Brown was shown telling a little Negro girl: "I'm running against an actor ?and remember this: You know who shot Abraham Lincoln...
Music professionals unanimously condemn the Monkees as the greatest public relations hoax since Ronald Reagan's rise to political prominence. At least California's governor-elect was an accomplished actor before he swapped vocations; the Monkees were still theatrical amateurs. That they can perform their cut-rate version of A Hard Day's Night every Monday night at 7:30 is a dismal reflection of the power of big money and connections in the music industry. The boys themselves are fully aware of their freakish birth and, for now, speak of "The Group" in a subdued whisper. "You know that...
Peter Ustinov, an actor who writes, prefers to be known as a writer who acts. "Acting is the quickest way of making a living," he says. "Writing is a longer-term thing. It is also-from the purely day-to-day angle-a kind of insurance policy...
...really seeking an insurance shelter, it seems clear that at 45, Ustinov has few worries. Successful as actor, director, composer, mimic and raconteur, he has also established himself as an author of respectable talent and prodigious output. Besides 16 plays (including The Love of Four Colonels and Romanoff and Juliet), he has tooled a better-than-average novel, The Loser, a collection of short stories, Add a Dash of Pity, and two volumes of better-than-average caricatures...