Word: mata
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vanderbilt said the original idea came from a story about Mata Hari. Consequently, it will feature "a lot of female spies. Of course, there will also be some male spies," he said...
Bernard Leman is amusing as the ineffectual, newly-in-charge Corporal Billy Jester who looks to the forest ranger's manual for the answer to every question. As Jester's heart throb, the flirtatious Nancy Twinkle, Robin Leidner steals more than the corporal's heart. Her "Mata Hari" scene is worth seeing all by itself...
...braces and auditioned for the first of her 200 TV commercials. Now 28 and a seasoned cinema bunkmate (appearing with Al Pacino in Serpico, with Michael Sarrazin in The Reincarnation of Peter Proud), the actress has sunk her straightened teeth into a new role. Cast as a neo-Mata Hari in The Next Man, Sharpe sets out to wipe out a Saudi Arabian Minister of State, played by Sean Cannery, 46. Would-be assassin, however, quickly turns amorist. "It's a love story dipped in oil," coos Cornelia, who hints that her days as a femme fatale might...
...conniving femmes fat ales, Mata Hari and Delilah pale by comparison to female fireflies of the genus Photuris. Like other fireflies, these nocturnal, winged beetles send out short, rhythmic flashes of light as part of a special signal system that attracts males of the same species. The female Photuris practices a deadly variation of this ritual. It modifies its signal to mimic the flash pattern of different species of fireflies and thus lures unsuspecting males. Once they are in reach, the female devours them...
...Crawford in Letty Lynton, she recalled: "Five hundred thousand copies of this dress were sold." Then she straightened the hat worn by Vivien Leigh when Scarlett O'Hara bailed out Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, and marveled at the exotic headpiece that disguised Greta Garbo in Mata Hari. When she got to the cane Mae West leaned on in films like She Done Him Wrong, Mrs. Vreeland briskly struck down one of Hollywood's fondest delusions. "Mae had quite a small bust, you know; it was all done with corsets...