Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charles Chaplin Jr., 22, booked in Los Angeles on suspicion of intoxication for a little fender-nicking incident, gave a low, morning-after moan: "I feel very badly . . , because of what my Dad will...
When the sonata was over, San Francisco's audience bravoed Szigeti to five curtain calls and fans followed him to his dressing room. Glowed Szigeti: "I think it got under their skins. I could feel it taking hold of them. This music-it is inescapable. A German composer could have diluted this sonata into enough material for a couple of symphonies...
...kind notices encouraged Peck and interested Hollywood enormously. The young actor earnestly wanted to become a good artist in a good Broadway play. But after three flops in a row, he began to feel that a little ready money, quickly made, would be very nice indeed-so long as it was clearly understood by everyone that after one picture he was going straight back to Broadway...
...weak. Peck appeals, as a very popular male star must, to both bobby-soxers and their mothers. He manages this feat without presenting himself as a big brother, as a cute, asexual nephew, or as a sophisticated porch climber. Men also immediately like him and wish him well; they feel that he is, in fact, an average human being-luckier, better looking and more gifted than they, but essentially one of themselves...
...because he is terrified at the possibility of running into some of the community's better-known Bright Boys. "I am short of the old I-am," he explains. "When I get mixed up with Nunnally Johnson or Herman Mankiewicz or Ben Hecht, I am struck dumb. I feel more comfortable in front of a camera." Actually, the very sound brain in his head doesn't run either to wit or to highbrow intellectual discussion. Alfred Hitchcock has said of him that he is probably the most anecdoteless man in Hollywood; it does not come natural...