Word: mason
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chief architect of the Virginia constitution is a crotchety and reluctant statesman, an heir to a plantation of thousands of acres and many slaves, who yet is one of the most dogged champions of individual rights. His name: George Mason. Afflicted with gout, he rode into Williamsburg almost two weeks late, yet he was instantly installed as a member of the committee to draw up a declaration of rights. With typical impatience, he declared that he found the committee "according to custom overcharged with useless members" who could be expected to offer "a thousand ridiculous and impracticable proposals." Mason promptly...
Elton John. Old Eyeglasses is back, bringing the delightful mastery of his divine piano skills to the quiet intimacy of Schaeffer Stadium. With Dave Mason and John Miles, Sunday, at the Stadium in Foxboro, but tickets only at the Orpheum and Ticketron...
...shows up on the set late and bobbles his lines. So said the London Daily Mail describing Telly Savalas filming a movie in West Berlin. Savalas' eyes turned purple when he saw the article, and last week he took his beef to a London court. Fellow Actor James Mason defended Telly's casual treatment of scripts, saying that he was "famous for the spontaneous and creative use of the language." Telly, for his part, disputed the Daily Mail's view of him as an unprofessional boor: "I am a loud, extraverted, friendly person, but never rude...
...baggage I've accumulated since my birth-is pure New York?" In Manhattan, Simon lived in a comfortable East Side townhouse. Now he has a massive electronic gate blocking the entrance to the ten-room house, gardens and pool that he shares with his second wife, Actress Marsha Mason, and his two daughters, Ellen, 19, and Nancy, 13. He gets his New York Times every Sunday to keep in touch -but the Times is not the New York he misses. "There's no ambience in Los Angeles," he complains, "and no sidewalks. No place to walk...
...baths for a dip with his fellow dignitaries. "Romans talk more freely in the bath," quipped the actor, adding that his watery scene was "not long enough for me to catch a cold." The movie, which features Olivia Hussey as the Virgin Mary, Robert Powell as Christ, and James Mason as Joseph of Arimathea, is due on television next spring. Ustinov, who played the emperor Nero in the 1951 film Quo Vadis, insists he is happy in the role of a heavy. "In religious films," he notes, "the best parts go to members of the opposition...