Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very first time he turned up at the taping of a Rowan and Martin show to begin reporting for this week's cover story, Los Angeles Correspondent Jim Brodhead was struck by the friendliness of everyone on the set. Even the guest stars acted like old buddies. Actor Van Johnson threw an arm over Jim's shoulders and asked: "When do you think I'll be wrapped up tonight...
...Actor Dave Madden: "My fiancée just found out she's been taking aspirins instead of the Pill. She doesn't have a headache...
...hate animosity myself, but if someone wants to keep up a silent thing, that's all right with me," sniffed Raquel Welch. Said fullback turned actor Jim Brown: "If you are star No. 1, there is no question of having to get along with people." In Spain filming 100 Rifles, a sex-and-violence western, the two stars were not even speaking to each other. "There was a real chemical thing going at first," recalls Raquel. But after a torrid love scene, the chemistry stopped. Brown refuses to discuss the matter. Says Raquel: "I don t know what happened...
...called Jack Jefferson, and James Earl Jones roars through the role with the jungle magnetism and pride of a lion. In a concentrated off-Broadway apprenticeship, Jones often played a kind of jolly brown giant; here he plays an avenging black one. Jones is not the kind of actor who buries himself in a part. Instead, he devours the part and then radiates its presence...
...whaler captain, he has a mean word for everybody. Composer Deems Taylor? "What a punk!" His Mississippi steamboat-captain grandfather, Charles Henry Ruggles? "A terrible old tyrant-he had to be captain of the ship all the time." His father Nathaniel? 'Drunk all the time." His boyhood hero, Actor Richard Mansfield? "A fine actor but a mean bastard," To this day, he has only one answer when asked about the state of American music: "I think Sun Treader is the greatest composition" And his reply to the obligatory question about his remarkable longevity is always the same: He thrives...