Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barrientos' best-remembered bit of do-it-yourself leadership came after two air force recruits fell to their deaths because their parachutes failed to open; newspapers and congressmen howled that military parachutes were faulty. Barrientos summoned newsmen to El Alto Airport at La Paz, ordered them to pick any chute in the military supply room. When they did, he strapped it on, went up and jumped himself. The criticism stopped...
...distance between Mia and Dustin was apparent during the first few days of location shooting for John & Mary. Between interminable rehearsals and takes at an East Side "singles" eatery called Maxwell's Plum, Hoffman hied himself off to mumble inconsequentially with the bit players and extras clustered around the bar. Mia sat tensely at the table that was the focus of the sequence, fiddling with a fork, making conversation with two other actors, and once breaking into a high, put-on Southern accent. The few times that Hoffman lingered at the table to make a time-killing joke, he addressed...
...screen she may have been flatfooted; offstage she could have used some lead weights on her shoes. When she first met Dali, he gave her a bit of rock he called "a tiny piece of the moon." Shortly thereafter, the painter invited the young actress for tea. "That afternoon," he remembers, "I had received a beautiful box of butterflies, and I had them on the table when she came in. We had English muffins with honey, and as she talked she took one butterfly out of the box, put it on top of the honey and ate it. She finished...
Partridge started out busking with pretty much the same motives in mind. At 15, he admits, he did not have the slightest idea what he wanted to do, and he left home because he was "a bit flighty." His first job was burgling. From that he graduated to ice cream salesman, crane driver, and 45 other different jobs (by his count). He now has seven children and is married to the mother of two of them. "When I'm rich enough," he says, "I hope to get all my kids and their mothers into one house with my wife...
...kind of audience breakthrough that has marked most of Hollander's concert appearances in the past two years. At Brown University he walked onstage in a turtleneck, boots and tight slacks, then "rapped a bit," as he puts it, with the students. "We had a give and take, a sway over the footlights," he recalls. "They felt something, that I was one of them, that I was giving them no lies, that I was not one of the programmed society." Last year he spent a week with the experimental Living Arts Program in the Dayton, Ohio, public schools, teaching...