Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover Eleanor." "All I ever demanded was results," Bach recalls, "and I got 'em." One reason was Teacher Bach's skill at spotting hungry boys with talent, most of them Depression kids with a drive to make good. For them, Bach's first aim was finding a fine camera: "In those days, it was like buying a diamond." Often Bach lent a boy the down payment out of his own pocket, persuaded a camera store to give him credit, found him odd jobs to keep up the payments. With a precision instrument in his palms...
Storm center of this culture crisis was Poet-Painter William Morris. 28. who can make with both the words and the brushes. "If Jack Kerouac is the prose writer of the Beat Generation, I am its visual chronicler," boasts Morris. As a painter, Los Angeles-born Morris once rode a motor scooter from Barcelona ("I cleaned Miro's studio") to Denmark (where he painted canvases with his bare feet), has kept a partial record of 25 exhibitions and eight museums in which his work hangs. As a poet, Morris has the word from Ezra Pound ("In 50 years...
...candy stand in the lobby, except when I shift into high, and then it sounds like Lily Pons when she's kidding.'' But she also has a pair of long and memorable legs-"They start from the shoulders," says one admiring choreographer-and she can make them do anything she wants. She has the grace of a ballet dancer, the exuberance of a cheerleader and the muscle power of a baseball player; at various times she has been all three...
...have a teacher yelling every minute, 'No, get your heels down,' the muscles in your calves stay long and supple." The north half of Shirley's body, she admits, "is not exactly Marilynish. In the movies and on TV, they always try to make me look bigger. But if I augment myself up there, people won't notice my legs, and my legs are supposed to be very nice...
...test and agreed was Alfred Hitchcock. He saw it and signed her to play in The Trouble with Harry. Shirley came on Vermont location slightly more sophisticated than when she left Broadway, but "Hitch" finished the picture convinced that Shirley was "unique-which belongs to the making of a star, the rare quality we want." This was high praise from a man who boasts that "I have little personal relationship with actors. All actors are cattle." * Just before making Harry, Shirley eloped with Steve Parker, an unemployed actor with an urge to wheel and deal as a producer. Now Steve...