Word: makeups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left that school" he says, "I knew the whole thing by heart." He does not contend that the seeds of his career sprouted in the basement, but such discipline did reinforce a respect for authority, which he retains in uneasy balance with the strongly rebellious elements in his makeup...
Guide to Stardom. To program listings (printed in large type, thus easily read by TV's dim light), TV Guide adds a light diet of gossip ("Sheree North was tossed off a coast-to-coast interview program when she arrived sans makeup when the show was one-third over.") and short features on TV performers. But it is neither a fan magazine nor a catchall for pressagents' puffs. Networks often do not like what TV Guide says about their shows, but they respect...
...Rhine, who term themselves parapsychologists.* They use sets of dice and packs of cards bearing numbers, letters or symbols, say that certain subjects can guess card identities or control the roll of dice beyond mathematical probability-even from a great distance. Their explanation: there exists in the human makeup a mysterious force called psi (from the Greek letter ψ) which carries powers of extrasensory perception (telepathy or clairvoyance) and psychokinesis (direct action of the mind on matter...
Frankie has his gang. He is rarely to be seen without a few. and sometimes as many as ten of "the boys" around him, and some look indeed like unfortunate passport photographs. A few of the Sinatra staff-Manager Hank Sanicola, Writer Don McGuire, Makeup-man "Beans" Ponedel-have established and important functions, but most of the others are classified as "beards and hunkers,"* and as they march in bristling phalanx along Sunset Strip, Frank walks lordly at the head of them...
...Lunches & Cadillacs. The Sinatra day usually begins about 10 a.m. with a mug of hot coffee and a grandiose scattering of transcontinental telephone calls. A dozen people crowd around him as the makeup-man goes to work, all trying to outshout each other and a blaring radio. Off to the set in a bevy of Cadillacs, where the mob grows to 50 or 100 until Frank suddenly stands alone against a sky-blue set and moves his mouth expressively, while his voice drifts out of a distant amplifier. At the first break he piles into a box lunch, then takes...