Word: actress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decapitation, according to Saudi tradition. Reports from California and Colorado, where the prince had been a university student, described him as a quiet, likable, notably unstudious young man who had once been arrested in Boulder for selling LSD and hashish. To his blonde former girl friend, sometime Movie Actress (Bite of the Co bra) Christine Surma, 26, an ambitious young woman who also bills herself "the country's only female auctioneer," the prince was a "perfect gentleman" who was proud of his family and his country. "If he's crazy," she declared, "he's become so since...
...doing it now." General Manager Schuyler Chapin spoke last week on behalf of the Metropolitan Opera and, indirectly, for thousands of equally delighted American opera fans. What is happening at long last is the arrival at the Met of Beverly Sills, the homegrown soprano who is the finest singer-actress in opera today. Sills' debut next week will be in a work never before heard there, The Siege of Corinth, a grandiose tragedy by a composer best known for his comedies, Gioacchino Rossini...
...vehicle. Like Funny Girl (1968), Funny Lady is gaudy and inane. As before, the star cuts up and camps up a revamped biography of Fanny Brice, here and there belting out a tune as if the lyrics were marching orders. Streisand is still more the enthusiastic personality than dexterous actress. She changes costumes faster than moods, and usually tosses off her lines like a rich girl rummaging through a drawer full of last year's clothes...
Died. Susan Hayward, 55, Oscar-winning cinema actress; of a brain tumor; in Beverly Hills. Born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, the red-haired model was fresh out of high school when she was plucked from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post by David Selznick for a screen test. Hayward scored her first break opposite Gary Cooper in Beau Geste (1939). Mistress of a sultry, come-hither look, she reached her zenith in the 1950s as one of Hollywood's most popular stars, once ecstatically declaring: "I never dreamed this could happen to a girl from Brooklyn." Her most...
...woman who has doubtless succeeded in her career, but surely not in her private life," confessed thrice-divorced Actress Brigitte Bardot, 40, during an interview in the Paris society weekly Jours de France. Her interviewer: French Novelist Françoise Sagan, 39, who has known the durable coquette for two decades. "I believe that exhibitionists are repressing feelings of shame," announced the oft-displayed Bardot when asked about eroticism in movies. "For me, love needs mystery, secrecy, silence. It is a very private affair." Will life ever change for the actress? "Perhaps in five years I will be forgotten, perhaps...