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...Ruth Buzzi, 28, from Wequetequock, Conn., plays Gladys, the man-hungry frump in the hairnet and ratty sweater-a character she developed when playing the spinster secretary in a summer-stock production of Auntie Mame. A graduate of 20 cabaret revues, she excels at song-and-dance numbers but is guaranteed to break it up when, as Gladys, she confides: "I never go out with soccer players. I hear they're not allowed to use their

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verrry Interesting . . . But Wild | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...ambitious, costly (about $350,000 per hour) new dramatic series Stage 67 has been the mail-order bride of the current season-so lovely in anticipation, so disappointing in actuality. Last week the frump finally combed her hair and put on a touch of lipstick. In a spare, dust-dry dramatization of Katherine Anne Porter's novella Noon Wine, Adapter-Director Sam Peckinpah in a single swoop revived much of the all-but-dead hope that serious drama can find a regular place in the TV schedule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Vintage Wine | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...ADDAMS FAMILY (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Part I of "Morticia's Romance," in which Carolyn Jones will play both herself as a 22-year-old and a character called Ophelia Frump. Margaret Hamilton, Oz's Wicked Witch, guest-stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Records, Cinema, Books: : Sep. 24, 1965 | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

...chronicle, Becket distorts history, Saxonizes the Norman Becket, and even turns Henry's formidable mate, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Pamela Brown), into a dull castle frump. As tragedy, it has more dry intelligence than real depth. As production, it stunningly displays its homework in the solid sweep of Norman arches, the mist-and-heath-er greens of old England. But in the end it holds interest chiefly as a pageant so prodigally endowed with talent that it can, for example, afford to squander Sir John Gielgud in a minor role as Louis VII of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Duel in a Tapestry | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

FIRST INTERNATIONAL GIRLIE EXHIBIT-Pace, 9 West 57th. Fun and games pop out on the walls, making the Mona Lisa look like a sedate frump and some of Toulouse-Lautrec's old haunts seem like a meeting of mah-jongg players. Ben Johnson's voluptuaries are in the pink, Mel Ramos trots out jungle queens in tiger-skin bikinis, Marjorie Strider shows paintings that project into the 36-Dimension, and Herb Hazelton delights in garish girdles from the Sears, Roebuck catalogue. Andy Warhol's Blue Girlie (9 ft. by 6 ft.) has a room all to herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MIDTOWN | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

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