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...batch of her mother-in-law's sesame chicken, complete with ''beer, spices and everything that is bad for you.'' Since she was freshly shorn for a fashion-modeling assignment, she also took the occasion to show off another of her many wigs, along with a crocheted headdress dripping with beads and feathers. TV viewers will see the more conventional Belafonte-Harper again next fall when she returns to her Hotel information desk. Maybe if fans complain, stern James Brolin, who runs the hostelry, will let her cut loose. Why not that headdress and feathers to liven up the lobby...
When the screen at the Deutsche Kinemathek's film museum in Berlin whirred into life, and showed the black-and-white image of a glamorous brunette sporting an elaborate headdress and a man applying lipstick on her pale, powdered face, curator Rainer Rother couldn't believe his eyes. It wasn't the beauty of the young actress that stunned him, but rather the realization that what he was watching was a sight film historians and archivists from around the world had been desperate to see: the legendary missing scenes from Austrian-born director Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis...
...going really well,” she says between breaths. “It’s going faster than I thought it would be going. You just work so hard and for so long and the moment lasts for, like, 30 seconds.” One feather headdress and a pair of skin-tight leather pants later, Alford lets me know she’s finally done performing and ready to watch R&B singer J. Holiday close the show. I catch a glimpse of her later. standing on a chair, digital camera outstretched like a periscope...
This sense of justice was informed by a sense of the divine. The Queen of the Night, a terra-cotta tablet that is the only other artwork to have survived from the period, displays a naked goddess wearing a horned headdress and carrying a rod - symbols of divinity and justice...
...astride a donkey. In THE SHOWGIRL MUST GO ON, the 62-year-old chantootsie often declares that she's exhausted, yet in her sharp 90-min. act, she seems ageless and indefatigable--strutting, singing, hopping around in a fish tail, cavorting under a 3,200-lb. (1,450 kg) headdress of pink feathers. Showgirl, a slick $10 million production, replaces Cline Dion's elephantine extravaganza with the unique Midler mix: sass, heart and a show-biz salesmanship that's been irresistible since her early days as an icon for gay men only. "Thirty years ago, my audiences were...