Word: dees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mustache is slightly thicker than Clark Gable's, his smile is even more dazzling, and he sees the possibilities. "Clark Gable is the apex," says Actor Billy Dee Williams. "A star is what everyone wants to be, even Presidents...
...Billy Dee's fortunes have risen rapidly in the past five years, since Motown Records Mogul Berry Gordy became his manager and teamed him with another Gordy protegee, Diana Ross...
Although Billy Dee is robustly masculine, his touch is as light as Comedian Bill Cosby's; he has avoided the angry black-stud typecasting that has shackled Jim Brown and Fred Williamson. "I always keep Jimmy Cagney in mind," says Williams...
...Washington. D.C., he portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in Josh Greenfeld's play I Have a Dream. He is currently working on a Universal back lot, playing the part of Black Composer Scott Joplin for an NBC special this fall. His mustache shorn, his hair slickly marcelled, Billy Dee sits before a dummy piano, miming perfect syncopation to Joplin's ragtime. Suddenly, on cue, he is distracted by the arrival of a lovely onlooker (Black Actress Margaret A very). Their eyes meet. The girl tries to feign disinterest, but she's hooked...
Nowadays Billy Dee is firmly tied with a Gordyan knot-a guaranteed annual income of $200,000 whether he works or not, plus percentages of his films. A loner who lives quietly in a modest three-bedroom house in Laurel Canyon with his Japanese-American wife Teruko and three children, Williams spends free time meditating, sketching, writing poetry and working out daily in a gym. His life-style more closely resembles that of such famed loners as Robert Redford and Paul Newman than that of Billy Dee's gregarious idol Clark Gable. "I am still searching," says Williams seriously...