Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better. It is better to have a temporary lack of freedom than to wait until the Communists are too powerful. Greece is not in the best economic condition and is ripe for preying Communists. Don't worry about Melina Mercouri and her sentiments; let her remain an actress and do well economically and let the government do well and save the country...
...pace. Birds spins out its simple material for nearly two hours, but every breath and heartbeat seems to occupy exactly the right amount of time. And Virna Lisi, whose surface adornments Hollywood's cameras have already thoroughly explored, emerges under Germi's unhurried guidance as an actress of depth as well...
...court proceedings, the fact that he had been a known friend of Wilde's was enough to get him fired as the Yellow Book's art director and virtually blacklisted. He was rumored to be guilty of just about every sexual deviation, including incest (with his actress sister Mabel) and homosexuality...
...outlandish decrees, such as the ban on beards, were prudently withdrawn, but others have stuck. The junta has blacklisted the works of nearly 300 Greek and scores of foreign authors, some Red, but others simply liberal, such as Senator J. William Fulbright. They have stripped Actress Melina Mercouri and some 400 other Greeks abroad of their citizenship, because they have "lost their Greek soul and conscience." They have banned Who's Who in Greece; it devotes too many pages to former Greek politicians...
...keep the action hopping on the set, he will often shout out the desired rhythms like a ballet master: "One-two-and-three-and-four" His own movement is jitterbug. He will bound off his chair to correct a camera angle, touch up the scenery, or show an actress how to swivel her hips. "Actors like to be told how to act, not shown," says Matthau, "but with Kelly, his great body movements reveal what he wants...