Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Orson Welles, looking puffy, overblown and overweight, exhibited Chimes and Midnight, a lively film that he directed and wrote with the help of William Shakespeare, who supplied the chief character: Falstaff, played by Welles. Through the centuries, most actors have had to stuff padding under their tights to play the renowned clown. Welles, at 51, remains unique; he is probably the first actor in history who appears too fat for the role...
MARK TWAIN TONIGHT! As Actor Hal Holbrook brings the man from Hannibal, Mo., back to life in a one-man show, he seems a snow-thatched Jove who has laid aside punitive thunderbolts for lightning strokes of irony and mirth. The format is that of Twain's turn-of-the-century lectures; the wry humor is timeless...
...insulted; he was delighted to put up with the putdown. Unimpressible Jewish mothers-and surly children, complaining wives, urban sprawl and the 20th century-have been his bread and butter ever since he changed his name to Alan King and became, successively, a big-time comic, author, actor, producer and all-round impresario...
...show-business circles, that same rule has long been unofficially enforced. English Actor Jimmy Stewart chose to change his name to Stewart Granger because of a well-known American in the same trade. Now he would have to make the change as a matter of law. In fact, the names in question need not even be exactly the same. Similarity will suffice. Even so, the owner of the Chevron gas station on West Third Street in Los Angeles is not worried. Though he displays his name on a huge sign, Linden Johnson figures that the other fellow is too busy...
Bestselling Author Yukio Mishima can write no wrong-at least in his native Japan. There he has briskly blended sensation and sensibility in 16 novels, 30 plays, and 80 short stories. Nine of these have now been issued in fluid, faultless English translation. In Onnagata, a dedicated Kabuki actor who plays only feminine roles lives his onstage art offstage as well, falls in love with a nasty new-wave director. In Patriotism, a dis graced lieutenant and his wife rapturously relax in a last voluptuous night together-and discover that after such pleasures, hara-kiri hurts even harder...