Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white liberals, black militants, wives, husbands, thieves and psychiatrists. From this last and presumably lowest shelf of humanity, the playwright produces a fatuously brain-shrunk specimen who brings his patient-paramour to the chateau. She in turn treats Manhattan's theatergoers to the sight of their first topless actress, but it must ungallantly be recorded that the lady's mammaries are pendulous...
...Ointment. Today, married to the former Jane Lanier Brotherton, a onetime actress known professionally as Jane Lawrence, Smith once again has a house of his own. Jane, along with Kiki, 13, and Twins Bebe and Annie, 12, together with one family cat and several fish, live in the South Orange house where he was born. Tony, on the other hand, lives in a 15-room Georgian mansion in neighboring Orange, which he bought two years ago, together with a bull mastiff named Dutchess, a second family cat-and his 20-canvas collection that includes works by Newman, Pollock and Kline...
More of the Shame. The voice belonged not to a hypnotist but to Lee Strasberg, 65, director of the Actors Studio, teaching method acting for the first time in Europe. "You seemed even to have run through a wall," he scolded after the actress' first effort to follow his commands. "When you smoked a cigarette, you held your fingers together as though you were sucking them. The cigarette had no taste, no reality. Now let's try again...
...embarrassed moments, the early confidence had gone. The actress responded like a Miss Universe candidate who had just popped a shoulder strap. Nevertheless, she returned the next day for more of the shame. Though Strasberg's famous pop-psych approach to acting has lately been criticized as much as it has been acclaimed in the U.S., the French have welcomed him as though he were Stanislavsky reincarnate. "The event of the theatrical season," trumpeted Le Monde, and 443 theater folk from 26 countries plunked down $60 each to get the Strasberg pitch. Among the students who enrolled...
Nevertheless, most of the French actors obviously dig la méthode and its group-therapy techniques. Says Strasberg: "One can sense their budding understanding." And also their growing dependence on the master. "What," wailed one French actress last week, "will we do after Lee has gone?" Maybe just pretend that he hasn...