Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leather brace. Her speech was halting, sometimes garbled. The miracle was that she was alive at all, after suffering three massive strokes in Hollywood last February. In a medical triumph, doctors had saved both her and the baby she was carrying [TIME, March 26]. Now, seven months along, Actress Patricia Neal, 39, was leaving Los Angeles with her family to give birth and continue recuperating at their farm in Buckinghamshire, England. "I may never act again," she conceded. "If I can't, I suppose I will settle down to being just a wife...
Despite its size, F-111 is hardly a new departure for Rosenquist, 31, who started out as a billboard painter and feels that his early years gave him a unique outlook. He once did a 58-ft. by 20-ft. portrait of Actress Joanne Woodward for a Broadway signboard, and his view of women and the world has been Brobdingnagian ever since. Says Rosenquist of his work: "I'm interested in contemporary vision-the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing-bang! Bing-bang! I don't do anecdotes; I accumulate experiences...
...lived in Harlem, and can spout such phrases as: "You goofed it, daddy." Ever wary of what Ubi may do, Mitchum scarcely can find any time for Carroll Baker, who speaks a few words of Swahili rather competently and lets the rest of her lines fall where they may. Actress Baker behaves in a manner befitting a missionary's daughter who aspires to become a sex symbol, but in movies as forced, synthetic and flaccid as Mister Moses, one false image more or less need not be held up to undue scorn...
...minute after Joel Schwartz's Just a Quiet Note begins, Isabel gives herself a fix. Since the fact of dope addiction no longer has much shock value, this was merely distracting. Slipping into a documentary frame of mind for a moment, I wondered vaguely whether the actress's technique was authentic, and waited...
...limousine appears in Trieste at the beginning of World War II, bought by a cranky American millionairess (Ingrid Bergman) who heads for the Yugoslav border spouting kind words about Hitler, though she cannot abide Roosevelt or Reds. Thanks to the rebel partisan (Omar Sharif) stowed away in her trunk, Actress Bergman -radiantly unconvincing throughout-takes an abrupt Left turn, ends up ferrying guerrillas through the mountains and dropping 20 years from her characterization...