Word: mistressing
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Freelance Artist Brooks Wilson (George Segal) lives your average 9 to 5 life: wife (Eva Marie Saint) in Connecticut; mistress (Janis Young) in Manhattan. Wilson has trouble peddling his ad illustrations-possibly because they look as if they were traced from a 1945 copy of the Saturday Evening Post. His wife has a combination of eros and vulnerability rarely seen outside Scandinavian movies, but Wilson prefers his hostile inamorata-possibly because she has almost no dialogue. To combat the strains of shuttling, the uneasy rider takes on huge loads of alcohol and begins alienating wife, children, colleagues and himself...
...Hard Day's Night and Help is sheer stupidity (which is not inappropriate) in Magic Christian. The only thing cheaper than Ringo's name on the theatre marquee is Raquel Weich's above it. Her lucrative, careermaking breasts quivered expressively throughout her fifteen-second role as an Amazon whip-mistress. The role, needless to say, also has no relation to Southern's original satire...
...rusty hulk moored to Bathurst pier. The bars draw a splendid selection of the local layabouts, who cadge drinks off the Swedes, and there is hot competition these days for a waiter's job at one of the hotels. Only last year, it seems, a strapping Swedish gym mistress selected one of the Atlantic's diminutive waiters as a husband...
...most college productions there is a well-defined hierarchy from the star down to the assistant properties mistress. The members of Theatron have little if any awareness of any one individual; there is no distinct sense of differentiation. At rehearsals I was surprised at how little consciousness there was of how big whose part was and who was onstage. This is partially due to the selection of A Man's A Man. of course. Brecht incorporates the scenic and musical aspects as such important parts that, for example, the set designer becomes one of the most vital people...
...suburban supermarket in Woodbury Heights, N.J., where Universal was filming They Might Be Giants, a kid came up and offered Actress Joanne Woodward a stick of bubble gum. Joanne popped the wad into her mouth and began blowing bubbles. The wardrobe mistress couldn't have been happier: she salvaged the gooey mess and used it to mend some broken cuff links worn in the next scene...