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Conjury and hypnosis are ancient Hollywood trades, and they have made many a local citizen rich. Small wonder, then, that Hollywood royalty steals reverently these nights to the cave of an Amazonian blonde who has, with a glare of her Nefertiti eyes, stretched Steve Allen and Linda Christian board-rigid across chairs in cataleptic trances. "Nobody can follow her," says Screenwriter Stanley (Pillow Talk) Shapiro reverently. "Not even Frank Sinatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Cataleptic Set | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...River Bishop James Ryan may well be appalled to learn that over and above his Amazonian problems he may have to cope with the "Three Dark Areas" cited by Dr. Miller in the adjoining column of the June 16 issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 30, 1961 | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...same plane, but partly redeemed by humor, are the one-joke japes around which Hollywood has built entire pictures. In Marriage-Go-Round an Amazonian Swede decides to have the perfect baby with a married college professor; Happy Anniversary dealt with a married couple's knee-slapping revelation that their 13th wedding anniversary was actually the 14th of their togetherness. Proof that such stories can be first-rate if treated right: Facts of Life, in which middle-aged Suburbanites Bob Hope and Lucille Ball tail a course in infidelity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: The Big Leer | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...results of patient continuance in well-doing." What he actually wrote was a sort of sissified, Swissified Tarzan story, describing a number of innocently improbable adventures that took place on an amusingly improbable tropical island populated with an absolutely absurd fauna of Asiatic tigers, African lions, Australian kangaroos, Amazonian anacondas, North American grouse, Mongolian asses and Swiss prigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture | 1/13/1961 | See Source »

Carry On, Nurse (Anglo-Amalgamated; Governor Films). "Good heavens, no!" the male patient sputters shyly to the two young nurses who propose to remove his drawers. "I'll do it myself if you don't mind.'' They do mind, and with Amazonian zest they pants the poor chap and dump him in the sack. "There now," one of them remarks, "what a fuss-about such a little thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 26, 1960 | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

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