Word: horseman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...earlier Giono novel, The Horseman on the Roof (TIME, Feb. 1, 1954), showed how young Angelo had lived through a cholera epidemic and learned how theatrically men often behave in the face of death. What he still does not know, for all his experience, is that he is the hand-picked tool of some shrewd leftist Italian conspirators-political stage managers who are using him to inspire and excite the crowd. To the conspirators, Angelo is a mere straw man whose ultimate "destiny is to be burned. "All that is asked of him," says a plump rebel plotter named...
Still, the trigger-happy actors flash their hardware with a difference. Actor Martin makes a snap shot that snips a horseman's reins at 20 paces. Young (18) Nelson, a popular rock-'n'-roll singer, gets little opportunity to show off his tonsils in his first Hollywood movie, but he demonstrates a remarkable proficiency with a Colt .45. Wayne, of course, walks off with the show-not by doing anything in particular, but simply by being what he is: at 51, still one of the most believable he-men in Hollywood...
...owns almost 50% of his show, makes about a million a year out of TV alone, not to mention oil wells, motels, ranches and the use of his name on merchandise. As an actor, Robertson can hardly say heck with his hands tied, but he is probably the best horseman in television, and his shy. Sunday-go-to-meetin' smile provokes what an agent describes as "the sexiest mail in Hollywood." Gimmick: he draws his .38 with his left hand ("That's so's they can't git the drop on me while...
...imperial family, he has lived a cocoonlike existence, with little knowledge of people and events in the outside world. He has too many servants but he lives simply. His great handicap is that all his life things have been spoon-fed to him, including education. He is an excellent horseman, a good swimmer, and very good at table tennis. He smokes moderately and drinks little. I think he has a good capacity for alcohol, but as he is the crown prince, it is perhaps just as well that he does not drink too much...
...little cluster of three hamlets that makes up the village of Zichen Zussen Bolder, they still tell an old story about a horseman who was galloping across the fields and suddenly disappeared into the earth, never to be seen again. Six years ago three village houses abruptly slid into the ground. Only last August, on the day of the village fair, the roof of the Catholic church collapsed...