Word: hayworth
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ORSON WELLES, director, writer, actor and...children's book illustrator? For Christmas 1956, 12-year-old REBECCA WELLES, Orson's daughter by Rita Hayworth, got a picture book about the festival of Les Bravades in St. Tropez, written and illustrated by her dad. "It was a wonderful gift, because I wasn't living with him at the time, and it was so unique and personal," says Rebecca. She sold the book in 1990, "because I thought the world should see it." Bart Rosenblatt and Al Corley (also known as the first Steven Carrington on Dynasty), beat out Martin Scorsese...
Like his father, Teddy enjoys going to the movies. His daughter Essie not only carries on this family trait, she actually leaves home to become a 1950s Hollywood star under the name Alma DeMott. Bit parts--"as a gangster's black-haired nightclub date in Hayworth's soggy Affair in Trinidad, as one of the dance-hall 'hostesses' in From Here to Eternity"--lead to co-starring roles with the likes of Cooper, Gable and Crosby. Essie's grandmother, Clarence's widow, sees this triumph as her husband's vindication: "When Clarence--when he--fell, it was so sudden...
...measure Ruth's greatness?" Not surprisingly, there were many adherents to the latter proposition. William Jenkinson, a self-described investigative historian, attempted to quantify Ruth's home-run prowess, dropping such impressive phrases as "drag coefficient" and "fast-twitch muscle fiber." A more direct analysis was offered by Ray Hayworth, a Detroit Tigers catcher during Ruth's era who had the advantage of watching the superstar in action from inches away. "Babe was just great," Hayworth explained. "It always amazed me that when he'd swing, you could hear the bat actually grind in his hands...
...year-old Parisian modeling agency Pauline's, "but I could easily envision Meryl Streep doing it with her children. Models seem more untouchable. People need glamour; they need to dream." Says designer Isaac Mizrahi: "When my mother was a little girl, she wanted to grow up and be Rita Hayworth or a ballerina. Now all the little girls want to be Linda Evangelista or Naomi Campbell. I don't think girls today want to grow up to be Jennifer Jason Leigh...
...actresses compared with their counterparts of the 1930s and '40s. Can the dim-bulb performance of Marisa Tomei in Only You (1994) stand up to Carole Lombard's luminosity in My Man Godfrey (1936)? How can Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Drew Barrymore compete with Rita Hayworth's Gilda, Gene Tierney's Laura, Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa in Casablanca and Merle Oberon's Cathy in Wuthering Heights? It's the same twentysomething age group, but these actresses had more than faces. They were riper, more mature, more compelling and light-years ahead in performance power. Jean Harlow...