Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Helen Hayes, D.F.A., actress...
...Duryea, 61, Hollywood's slippery heel (Black Bart, Terror Street, Manhandled); of cancer; in Hollywood. Duryea sparkled as a versatile actor whose rough treatment of women shocked audiences and censors alike (1945's Scarlet Street was banned in New York, probably for his ungentlemanly slapping of Actress Joan Bennett). He went on to portray a modified villain, recently appeared in roles that allowed him to play the gentle soul for a change...
Girl Talk is telecast in most areas during the day but is taped at the cocktail hour "because," says Virginia, "women talk better then. The later the show, the more the barriers are down." And the dudgeons up. Once Actress Natalie Schafer greeted Columnist Sheilah Graham (no kin to Virginia) with: "Oh, I'm so glad to meet you. You were the cause of my divorce." Sheilah was also clawed by Zsa Zsa Gabor, who suggested that the columnist was too old to write about love...
...convalescence plagued by interminable flashbacks. There is a Harlem boyhood that includes an incestuous homosexual interlude with his older brother. This is followed by a pre-hippie East Village adolescence during which Leo begins to forge a lasting black-brother, white-sister relationship with Barbara King, a Kentucky-born actress. And finally comes the highly satisfactory love affair with Christopher, a natty young militant black cat. The most important thematic progression to be noted in this work is that for the first time in a Baldwin novel, black man gets black...
Metzger plowed some $500,000 of it back into pay dirt to shoot Therese and Isabelle in France. It has much of the patina of a real movie, even though Actress Gael looks anything but a schoolgirl with her eyeliner and bottle-blonde tartiness. But Essy Persson, the woman in Woman, does manage a plausible interpretation of a troubled teenager, and Metzger has taken enough pain's with his brooding photography to let at least some of the spectators kid themselves into believing that they have come to an art house to see some...