Word: hayworth
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When the curtain rises on Jerome Robbins' new ballet, Variations on I'm Old Fashioned, the audience sees a movie screen. A four-minute film clip from You Were Never Lovelier (1942) shows Fred Astaire dancing with the breathtakingly lovely Rita Hayworth, then 24. They start off slowly, pick up momentum, then get rambunctious, in an elegant way. Passing through the French doors at the end of the sequence, they even bump shoulders briefly before gliding off into one of the many mansions reserved for the gods of dance...
...respectful admiration (Saint Laurent, Kenzo, Blass, the knits of Sonia Rykiel that move over the body like a Slinky toy) and one's comers (Vivienne Westwood or the Tunisian-born Azzedine Alaïa, whose clinging, deep-dish dresses could make even a mermaid look like Rita Hayworth in Gilda). But one also and ultimately has befuddlement, an impression of satiation that dwindles only gradually. Ellin Saltzman, fashion director of Saks Fifth Avenue, points out very sensibly that "fashion shows are done for press value first and foremost, not for the buyers. I can't get word...
...studio film stars for a juicy part are as thick as autumn leaves-and some even thicker. And so with her Wonder Woman tights permanently stored away in some back-lot prop warehouse, Television Actress Lynda Carter dons a red wig and sucks in her tummy for Rita Hayworth, the Love Goddess, an upcoming two-hour CBS television movie. Carter learned how to dance and watched some of Rita's old films to strive for what she calls "the essence" of her character-goodness knows, she's 100° short on the smoldering look. Her performance will...
...opening novells of Different Seasons, "Hope Springs Eternal: Rita Hayworth and Shasta Redemption," is about a jailbreak. Not a very imaginatively conceived jailbreak. Not a very credible narrator. Not many quotable lines. Not a very good story...
King wrote it immediately upon the completion of one of his later novels, The Dead Zone. But in "Rita Hayworth," his sense of the macabre is notably absent. The story suffers: the style is stilled, the mood is tense, the characters shallow, and the ultimate effect is forced. "Rita Hayworth and Shasta Redemption" is not Stephen King...