Word: bara
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sturges' mother was a much-married dilettante who befriended Theda Bara, Aleister Crowley and Isadora Duncan. While working for his mother's cosmetics firm, Preston invented a kissproof lipstick. His life was as eccentric as his films. How does Donald Spoto make it read like forced labor? Some biographies, the good ones, offer a vivid picture of the artist's life. Others, like Spoto's, remind you of the biographer's trudge through library morgues and dead-end interviews. Sturges' film world was so open to American experience that even a bartender, asked for a special concoction, could exclaim...