Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. An Indian playboy (Shashi Kapoor) wavers between his movie-star mistress (Madhur Jaffrey) and an English actress (Felicity Kendal) who is touring the provinces with a troupe of tatty Shakespeareans. The real show is U.S. Director James Ivory's delicate study of fading British influence in India...
...never posed in the nude. The gossip on her is no more exciting than what they write about the Queen Mother. She has made only three films, as yet unreleased-things called Swinging Summer, Fantastic Journey and One Million B.C. Nonetheless Actress Raquel Welch, 23, a San Diego lass making the London scene, is upstaging every sexpot in Europe, being treated to covers on picture magazines and about as much Fleet Street play as Meg would get if she left Lord Snowdon. It's all quite unaccountable, although Raquel herself explains it this way: "I'm told...
...another. Within a year she was up to three, four, five a night. Sometimes she threw in a couple of yellow dolls, just to make sure, and in the morning she swallowed a green doll to wake her up. Pretty soon she started passing the pills out to her actress friends, and before long all the leading ladies in this book are absorbing Seconal by the shovelful. Life turns into a barbituratrace that is bound to come to a bad end. One of Jennifer's friends winds up in a funny farm, and eventually, of course, Jennifer herself dies...
What is all this-a cautionary tale about the dangers of sedation or just one more peeping tome about show business? Certainly the latter, though it was written by a TV actress, Jacqueline Susann, who insists that the book is practically a kinescope of show-business life as she has seen it lived. If so, it would seem that Author Susann has spent most of her time watching people swallow Seconal, slurp Scotch and commit sodomy. Somebody does one or the other on almost every page, and a large crowd has gathered to watch the exhibition. Dolls is firmly established...
From the dim, funnied halls of the Harvard Lampoon, at 2 p.m. Saturday, April 23, Natalie Wood will step into the telling sunlight of Mt. Auburn St. to receive the 'Poon's Worst Actress Award...