Word: actressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sleeping Alone. Her career as an actress was brief but profitable. While she was still in the movies she sniffed every breath of scandal, sized up every star and starlet. When she was through in pictures, she was ready to challenge Louella Parsons as Queen of the Glamourmongers. In 1936 she talked her way onto radio, and in 1938 into her own syndicated column. She and Lolly never got along after that...
...himself and planning great escapades which invariably fail, or the Haitian doctor, a gentle, philosophical communist. And there's not nearly enough about the narrator's mother, who writes to her Haitian lover: "Marcel, I know I'm an old woman and as you say a bit of an actress. But please go on pretending. As long as we pretend we escape. Pretend that I love you like a mistress. Pretend that you love me like a lover. Pretend that I would die for you and that you would die for me." Corny stereotypes can be enjoyable...
...interference for an oil sheik whose assassination is pending. Among the double-dealers he encounters, none surpass Françoise Dorléac, a wry, loose-limbed French beauty who wafts the spirit of high comedy through a role that would hardly seem worth the bother if a lesser actress played...
...having bought a respectable suit of clothes. "Virgo intacta still," he confided to his diary before the event. "Forced caresses," he noted gloomily a few days later, true to his ungallant belief that woman is the predator, man the prey. "The ideal woman is a man," he wrote to Actress Ellen Terry -a bleak thought whose comic possibilities were brought out by My Fair Lady's Professor Higgins. ("Why can't a woman be more like...
Actually, it's all rather engaging for a while, because Reagan's ghostwrites in a sassy, colloquial style that cries, "Look at me." But it's overdone, and soon becomes too cute and too flippant. Even in serious moments, such as the single paragraph summary of his divorce from actress Jane Wyman. Reagan parodies his suffering "if you hit us we bruise, if you cut us (forgive me Shakespeare) we bleed...