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...exception is Timothy Carey as a fang-toothed, philosophical hood who eats dinner wearing white gloves and likes to quote the great thinkers. Cassel is curious about why Carey declines to fulfill his assignment and kill Gazzara. Carey curls his lips over his gums, lets a little foam drip, and says, "Like Karl Marx said: opium is the religion of the people." From him, that is sufficient explanation. No one would dare ask further questions...
Barbra Streisand drove costume fitters to the brink during the filming of Funny Girl by continually changing the padding in her bras. Playing Julius Caesar in Cleopatra, Rex Harrison allowed his own skinny frame to be beefed up with foam rubber, so much that the daggers kept bouncing off him during the death scene. So reports Oscar-Winning Designer Irene Sharaff, 64, describing the care and costuming of actors in a new memoir titled Broadway and Hollywood, Costumes Designed by Irene Sharaff. Stars are like "anyone else in underwear," she insists. In The Bishop's Wife (1948), for instance...
Rides high above the foam...
When an assassination attempt is made, it is usually the work of a dissident political faction and not the outburst of a sociopath. In Greece, for example, where political passions still foam fiercely in the wake of the restoration of democracy after seven years of military rule, at least five times last fall Prime Minister Constantine Caramanlis moved out of his official residence onto a yacht that was never anchored in the same harbor for more than one night. It was suspected that plotters out to restore another right-wing dictatorship were trying to kill him. Authoritarian regimes...
...rather sensitive government scandal. The exact nature of the disgrace is unspecified, but there is no mistaking Ventura's dedication. He rents a hotel room in the French town of Montpellier and starts unpacking his sniper gear from a specially rigged suit case lined with foam rubber...