Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little picture has Hero Oskar Werner as a pyromaniacal punk who sincerely thinks that "books are just rubbish." Werner is unshakably believable, but Julie Christie, in the dual role of his dull wife and spirited woman who arouses his interest in books, strongly supports the suspicion that this actress cannot actually...
Japanese surgeons can perform miracles. Jujin Hospital's Dr. Fumio Umezawa was once asked to remodel an unknown Hong Kong actress to look like a star who had died in the middle of a movie; his work was so perfect that superstitious studio hands swore they were seeing a ghost. After nearly three decades of plastic surgery, in fact, Dr. Umezawa admits to only one failure. It involved a Japanese movie actress who had come to him for the insertion of bags of silicone jelly to build up her breasts. Shortly after the operation, she had to go before...
...most celebrated movie actress in the U.S. eats "squashy and gorgeous" boiled-potato sandwiches and drives around Hollywood singing at the top of her lungs. She doesn't do these things at the same time, but nobody would be surprised if she did. In a town where everybody plays the angles and wholesomeness is something of an aberration, Julie Andrews, 31, is tolerated as a delightful kook...
Julie, in short, is something else-in Hollywood, but not with it. Unencumbered by the cotton-candy fantasy life in which most stars invariably shroud themselves, she has stayed resolutely honest and unspoiled. She is an actress, as Librettist Alan Jay Lerner once remarked, who achieved stardom "with nothing to offer but talent, industry and an uncorrupted heart...
...suggested at the time that Julie go to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; she would undoubtedly have been the better actress for it. But Mum ruled that practical experience was best. "We decided," she says, "that a little toughening up as far as the theater world was concerned would be good. So we took her into our act. Let's face it: it didn't hurt the act either. Of course, we weren't always in the same show." One summer at the resort of Blackpool, for instance, "we were on the pier...