Word: actress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JUNCTION. Another London slum saga based on a novel by Nell Dunn (Poor Cow) is saved from its pulpy sociology by Director Peter Collinson's extraordinary spirit of place, and Actress Suzy Kendall's widening range of talent...
Divorced. Gary Grant, 64, suave, handsome, debonair, altogether Hollywood's perfect gentleman; by Dyan Cannon, 30, sometime actress (Broadway's Ninety-Day Mistress); after 32 months of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles. Dyan and others testified that Gary had been "an apostle of LSD" for ten years; that he was subject to yelling and screaming fits," spanked her and hit her and promised to break her "like a pony," after which he would create "the wife I want" through the miracle of LSD. Grant denied all through his lawyers (he is in New York, recovering from auto...
Pavese feared impotence, was never happy in love, and failed for the last time with a young U.S. movie actress. In his suicide note he wrote: "Don't gossip." But of course everyone did-and not, perhaps, simply about the unsuccessful love affair. For Pavese's complex character has left friends and critics guessing ever since. These novels prompt the suspicion that he suffered from a sense of personal inadequacy compounded by postwar disillusionment. He had a Hamlet streak in him too wide to live with...
Biographer Webb, a former advertising copywriter and actress, is on fresher ground when she chronicles his years in the North. Much of the material is drawn from the last third of the Black Boy manuscript, which did not appear in the finished book. In Chicago, Wright worked at odd menial jobs and encountered the same fears and prejudices he had left at home. He worked nights as a postal clerk and spent his days reading and "filling endless pages with stream-of-consciousness Negro dialect, trying to depict the dwellers of the black belt as he felt and saw them...
...copulation explosion, Tyson has never gone more than 17 hours without committing adultery. His wife is Actress Caterina Largo, who possesses, among other things, "a behind stuffed with the golden fleece of erotic dreams for the Mediterranean peoples," and shoulders so flawless that they "reminded Swedish men of winter nights in boarding schools, and English women of golden hockey captains." Their director, Albert McCobb, is a grotesque gourmand who is devoted to Roquefort cheese but spurns Danish blue because it is "non-ewe." McCobb may remind some readers of Alfred Hitchcock-just as an actor named Chuck Moses...