Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Actor Ronald Reagan, leading contender for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in California, got a tough competitor last week. He is big, bluff George Christopher, a persuasive campaigner who served with distinction as San Francisco's Mayor from...
...pursues it as Ahab pursued the white whale. Just as Ahab was obsessed with the mystery of existence, Pizarro is haunted by the emptiness of being. Both are horrified by the blank, impersonal face that the universe turns to them. Played with stormy authority by Actor Christopher Plummer, Pizarro lashes his men through an ordeal of fire, ice and fear into the serene court of Atahuallpa. They are greeted as gods, and prove the bloodiest of devils. In a slow-motion ballet of contained fury, the actors mime the slaughter of 3,000 Peruvians within an hour by 167 Spaniards...
Million in Tahoe. The Sammy Davis Show, set for Friday nights at 8:30 E.S.T., will finally provide a showcase wide enough to demonstrate all of the star's many selves: singer, dancer, co median, actor, mimic, impresario. No one, including Davis, has ever defined his appeal. As a high-swinging singer he has sold well over 6,000,000 records; yet many singers have sold more. As a nonstop hoofer he can switch from waltz clog to Watusi without missing a step; yet so can Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. As a multivoiced mimic he can do nearly...
Some Porsche addicts even go in for a form of reverse snobbery, put Porsche engines in Volkswagens. One such car is owned by Actor Paul Newman, three more by Racing Buff Art Sparks of Pasadena. "It's a great satisfaction," says Sparks, "to come up behind a Cadillac on a hill on the way to Las Vegas, let him have the horn and go breezing by. They wonder what happened...
Ralph Waite as Matthew Stanton springs from an Actor's Studio background well-suited to his role. Following the general tone he underplays the first act and opens up in the second. He successfully completes a vastly difficult assignment: gaining the audience's sympathy but not their pardon. A more flamboyant actor would have fallen off that particular tightrope...