Word: namee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nurses was given the name of a homosexual VD carrier. (This type of case is difficult because of the promiscuity involved; whereas adult heterosexuals average four recent contacts and teen-agers six, homosexuals average up to twelve.) Posing as a poll taker, she talked her way into his Back Bay apartment. When she gave him the bad news, he gagged, ran to the bathroom and vomited. When he emerged, he fainted dead away. "Luckily," says the nurse, "he fainted right next to his well-stocked bar, so I just reached over and poured a bit of brandy into him." Restored...
...wore no makeup. Then she strode out in her beat-up pumps-and as if on cue, heads turned, cars slowed, and a sailor rushed up at flank speed. "You're in the movies, aren't you?" he asked. "But I can't remember your name." Said she: "Who, me? You must be kidding...
...name is Sandy Dennis, and she couldn't care less whether you know it. As far as credits go, she is a major star at 30. Yet by dint of personal force and preference, she has thumbed her perky nose at glamour and the constraining star system. In 1963 and 1964, she won Tony awards for her first big Broadway roles, the sensitive social worker in A Thousand Clowns and the delectable mistress in Any Wednesday. For her next big success, the screen version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, in which she played the frightened young...
...actresses of talent rather than tinsel. But equally important is Sandy's own single-minded drive for theatrical achievement. Her background has a lot to do with it. She comes from Nebraska, and as a matter of odd fact, so do a remarkable number of other well-known names in show business-the Astaires, Marlon Brando, Johnny Carson, Montgomery Clift, James Coburn, Henry Fonda, Dorothy McGuire and Robert Taylor, to name a few. Just why, may have been explained a few years ago by ex-White House Aide Ted Sorensen, another Nebraska refugee. "The state," he complained...
...because Director Rydell scents a best-actress nomination for Sandy. Her next film, in the can but not due for release until next summer, also has a somber-sounding scenario, suggesting that Dennis movies may soon see the last of the Radio City Music Hall. Sweet November is the name, and Sandy plays a dying girl who changes lovers every month...