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...placed mirrors, rich oranges and reds glow on every side. The black border motif on the rugs and walls summons up visions of black flames. Bright pink branches thrust upward from behind small neo-Martian chairs, and the sconces are big burnished theater masks, enough to scare a timid millionairess right out of her chiffon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Voila! It's Fun a Lacroix | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

THEATER: "The Millionairess"; B.U. Theater; Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday at 8 p.m., Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: b.u. | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...showing at Cinema 1: The Eye of the Nazi, with Donald Sutherland-adventures of the famous German spy known as "Der Nazi"; at Cinema 2: Arlene, with Bernadette Peters and Helen Hayes-zany alcoholic millionairess cavorts with foul-mouthed maid; at Cinema 3: Blow Dry ("Murder has a wave of its own")-hair stylist overhears plot to murder the memory of Alfred Hitchcock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Summer's End: Goodbye, Local Peaches | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...untitled, but he had more than earned his royal mirthright. In a career that spanned four decades, Sellers played a German scientist, an R.A.F. officer and the President of the U.S. in Dr. Strangelove; a Cockney Marxist in I'm All Right, Jack; an Indian doctor in The Millionairess; a French detective in A Shot in the Dark; a dowager and her friends in The Mouse That Roared. He impersonated celebrities as varied as James Bond and Queen Victoria, and when literary conceits seemed impossible to translate to film, Sellers easily became Quilty, the littérateur of Vladimir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Prime Minister of Mirth | 8/4/1980 | See Source »

...with international stardom came miseries that he trailed across more than one continent. Trouble began when he either did or did not have an affair with Sophia Loren, his co-star in the 1961 adaptation of Shaw's The Millionairess. He says he was so smitten that he confessed this indiscretion to his wife. It led ultimately to their breakup, which friends and family believe he continues to mourn. Loren claims they were just good pals who used to cook dinner for each other occasionally. Sellers is outraged by this dismissal of an event that he believes changed his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sellers Strikes Again | 3/3/1980 | See Source »

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