Word: cutup
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right, maybe the little cutup over there in the corner will never be Roddy McDowall in How Green Was My Valley. And maybe the princess maneuvering her Barbies around the doll house will never be Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet or Jean Simmons making her way through Great Expectations and Olivier's Hamlet with certainty and erotic grace. But to one degree or another, most kids-even yours-are actors anyway. Before a camera, most could be great if they did not learn, for whatever reasons of self-defense, to be cute and lovable. They turn into the celluloid...
...with nice young men from her neighborhood in Los Angeles. She thinks the film was very funny and says, "That Woody Allen, he's something! I can't make head or tail out of half of what he says." She, not Diane, appears to be the ranking family cutup; when Diane's sister Dorrie, 24, had to write a genealogical essay in the manner of Roots for college, Grammy Hall obligingly gave phony details about ancestors unto the fifth generation...
Though established as a name, Nicholson is in the first flush of excitement at being a household word right now, and he is handling it with the respectable glee and half (but only that) the mocking humor of a sort of cutup prince regent. He is talking to Stanley Kubrick about playing Napoleon, to Bernardo Bertolucci about being the Continental Op in a film of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. Milos Forman is waiting for him to finish Fortune, so he can start playing McMurphy in an adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo...
...what the dating-game pragmatists of the day called "fixed up" with William Erness Thoresen III. He was not only a son of the president of Chicago's Great Western Steel Corp. but tall, handsome and charming as well. At 20, Bill Thoresen was also something of a cutup. He already had a record for shoplifting violations and assault-and-battery arrests. But, as Louise explains in her account of the twelve years she spent trying to wear William's dangerously cracked glass slipper, "He made my life exciting, and he needed...
While Cleavon Little brings a rip-roaring fervor to Purlie's evangelistic soliloquies, the cute cutup who steals the show, the evening and the audience's heart is the back-country girl (Melba Moore) who falls in love with Purlie. Melba Moore is a delightfully innocent minx, a girl who seems to have swallowed joy for breakfast. When she sings, the sun shines in, and when she dances, her feet play truant from the earth...