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Today Twiggy and Justin are in the movie business. Twiggy is the star of Ken Russell's overblown but engaging film The Boy Friend (TIME, Dec. 20), and she will be the lead in a musical she and Justin want to do about the '30s, entitled Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance. Justin, though credited as "Production Associate," at one point found himself persona non grata on the set of The Boy Friend, and is taking no chances with the new movie they are planning-he will be the coproducer. "We don't talk to agents or read anything...
...idle boast. On Twig-gy's 98-lb. frame Justin built a mini-conglomerate. Besides Twiggy Good Times Productions, formed last October, there is an umbrella organization known as Twiggy Enterprises. Though Justin and Twiggy are now out of the fashion business, their organizations have in the past rented her name to Twiggy dolls ($1,000,000 profit in royalties) and Twiggy clothes ($300,000), and to Yardley of London cosmetics (around $1,000,000 over five years) for, among other things, eyeliners called "Twiggy Stix." "Deals, deals, deals," says Justin. "We do things as we get interested. That...
...Svengali. Discoverer, manager and boy friend, Justin denies one further description. "A lot of people have the impression I'm Mr. Svengali," he remarks. "Actually I'm the softest person in the world." Soft or not, he is very much in charge. "Without him, where would she be?" her father once asked. "He is the prop on which she leans." Says the Twig herself: "None of it would have happened if I hadn't met Justin. He listens to everybody's opinion and then makes up his own mind. Fortunately, I listen only to Justin...
...Justin has always vetoed speech lessons, which would alter Twiggy's working-class accent, and has protected her from all the "jiggery-pokery" that might tarnish her image, or what he thinks her image ought to be. When Photographer Bert Stern wanted to use her in a series of pictures illustrating pop fairy tales a few years ago, Justin turned him down flat. "Twiggy has a pure, clean image," he said. "The whole idea of the wolf, the big bad wolf, and Twiggy-it has something erotic about it." He added, quite unnecessarily: "I won't have sexual...
Still, friends insist that if Twiggy feels strongly about something, she stands up for it. She and Justin have been engaged since July 1968, just a few hours after he obtained a divorce decree from his first wife, but Twiggy, now 22, has steadfastly postponed marriage until she is 24 or 25. After all, she says, "my older sister started at 18 and had two bad ones, and Justin had one go wrong...