Word: cinemactor
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...chattiest of the word warriors is intimately known to dour Cinemactor James Mason, who for years has been famed offstage for a sort of stunned silence. It was not one of Mason's fifteen cats that got his tongue. Every day, when she rises from her noon bath in their Beverly Hills mansion, his wife, coruscant Pamela Mason, 42, begins talking with the literate sting of a Parisian presiding over her salon. An old friend, Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson, says: "She talks like a woman who was born analyzed. She is happily malicious...
...Force popped a promotion list into the senatorial hopper, then waited for the what-for. On the roster: drawling Cinemactor and Reserve Colonel James (Strategic Air Command) Stewart, once refused promotion to brigadier general two years ago (TIME, Sept. 2, 1957) after Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith, herself a reserve lieutenant colonel with an administrative assistant hopeful of a star-sized Pentagon mobilization assignment, sounded off on War Hero Stewart's skimpy training record. Promising nothing, Colonel Smith still seemed a trifle dubious: "I don't think reserve promotions ought to be taken lightly as they...
Considerably sprucer than when he waddled through his filmed portrait of the artist (Joyce Cary's madcap Gulley Jimson) as an old sot, Cinemactor Sir Alec Guinness beamed sedately at a kind word from Princess Margaret at a royal film performance of The Horse's Mouth. Down the line, spinach-maned Chanteuse Juliette Greco and Cinemactress Peggy (Cash on Delivery) Cummins awaited the royal pleasure...
...rebels in bar-bereft Cuba, where his trained eye zeroed in on the local frails, thirsted mightily for a stiffer mode of life ("Water to me is undrinkable"), and scribbled notebooks full of tidbits for a biography of Hero Fidel ("We're on a first-name basis"), paunchy Cinemactor Errol Flynn, 49, swashbuckled into Manhattan to praise his friend. "I've admired this man for at least two years," said Flynn, leaning heavily on the Disneylandish bar (fuchsia with pink lights) in his apartment. "There aren't many idealists left." But back in Havana, thoughts of "Reporter...
Born. To Rory Calhoun (real name: Francis Timothy Durgin), 36, cinemactor, and Lita Baron, 28, Spanish-born onetime singer for Bandleader Xavier Cugat: their second child, second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tami Diane. Weight...