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...actually started his film career as a sailor. A motion-picture company was making a movie of a novel by Yujiro's brother, who arranged for Yujiro to work as an extra because he could handle a sailboat. Within a year, he was starring in a beach-bum opera called Love Affair at Kamakura. He had been a law student but he abandoned that, began to drink, and was soon in the 800-fan-letters-a-day class. Instead of dried seaweed and rice, he preferred beer for breakfast-and whisky in the evening. With two other working lushes...
...their toleration of eccentrics, but this can be intolerable to the eccentric himself if he is a dedicated exhibitionist. Bernard Kops has been a poor Jewish evacuee from the blitzed East End of London, a waiter, an actor in terrible road companies, a book peddler, a songwriter, a bum in London and Paris and tout for a brothel in Tangier. He has told all in a sort of breathless antistyle that can be the most irritating of all styles. Every frightful thing that happened to him (and the rare pleasant event) is told in exactly the same tone of voice...
...while idly surfboarding at Malibu, Gidget and her girl friends get to talking about a trip to Rome. But go to Rome without boys? A girl would as soon go dateless to a drive-in. So Gidget gets Moondoggie, her beach-bum boy friend, to line up a couple of blind dates for her chums. Quicker than one can say Alitalia the adolescent sextet is scampering down the Spanish Steps, posing for gag snapshots in front of St. Peter's, twisting in the Baths of Caracalla. "Pinch me," says Gidget. Someone does, and she knows she is really, truly...
...hers. Europe has made Barbara what she is--in America she was just a poor girl from Harlem and George Washington High--but it has also drained David of his creative energy. Seduced by the social whirl of the Continent, he has degenerated into a "Europe-bum" who starts novels but never finishes them...
Super-Duper. So off to Soho Cassius trooped, to confront Cooper at a press luncheon, arranged by Promoter Jack Solomons. "Henry Cooper is a tramp, a cripple and a bum," Cassius declared. "I'll hit him so many times he'll think he was surrounded." Cooper manfully fought back...