Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quick and versatile, he has designed everything from a production of Hello, Dolly! to a TV version of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, is now talking to the Metropolitan Opera about a 1970 commission. Ponelle earns about $60,000 a year from his designs, lives with his actress wife Margit and son Pierre, 11, in a two-story villa outside Munich...
...Hollywood's Lifeboat (1944). Yet even to the flops she brought the kind of fierce power and impish delight that captivated friend and foe alike. Tennessee Williams called her a cross between a tiger and a moth, and her performance offstage was the true measure of the actress. Lavish beyond redemption, garrulous beyond recall, Tallulah chain-smoked, talked and caroused like a longshoreman. She was known to romp around her apartment in the nude drinking planter's punch-and sometimes greeted friends at the door in the same state of undress. Tallulah refused to remember anyone...
Earlier, similarly grim testimony had come from Actress Kitty Arseni, accused by the Athens regime of having been an intermediary for the recording of a "freedom poem" by Composer Mikis Theodorakis. In Athens, a government spokesman announced angrily that Greece would boycott further commission hearings this week if the sessions were not kept secret. Marketakis and Meletis, meanwhile, were granted permanent residence in Norway...
...beach at dawn, surrounded by symbolically dead birds and sated, unconscious males; or being caressed by a Lesbian brothel-keeper; or struggling vainly for sexual fulfillment in the bed of a handsome hermit. The scenes are not remotely erotic. This is partly because Seberg is not much of an actress, partly because Gary is not much of a director, and partly because no taint of reality has been permitted to obtrude; whether she is on the beach or in bed, nary a hair of the sleek blonde Seberg head is allowed out of place...
...series and Zwemmer's inaccurate historical catalogues masquerading as critical history. The stories are fast and funny, the cast of characters incomparable: Brownlow discusses many people of whom we knew much too little -- Allan Dwan, Charles Rosher, Louise Brooks (who was I think the screen's most beautiful actress), Abel Gance, and Josef von Sternberg, to name a few. The many fascinating production stills are superbly reproduced, largely hitherto unanthologized, and consequently render the book an invaluable as well as significant reference