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Psychic Fix. Mickey, in fact, did everything for real. Every Mike Hammer story has a blonde viking in it. The one in this picture is Britain's Shirley Eaton, a tall taffy goddess like the girl Hammer once shot in the navel. She wears onionskin bikinis. In the first take of a passionate scene, Mickey and Shirley were stretched out on a couch when something went wrong with the lighting. "Cut," said the director. Not Mickey. "We stayed there rehearsing for an hour while they changed the lights," he remembers. "That was Method acting, boy. The Spillane method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: I, the Actor | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...swollen eye. A shock. When John the Baptist was pulled barefoot from his cistern prison, his long matted hair hung down to his animal skin sarong. Another shock. Then came Salome with her veils and her dances, and in a spirit perfectly suggested by the jewel stuck in her navel, she treated an earnest audience to a performance of Strauss's shocker that came straight from the libido. For its new Salome under the sophisticated hand of Director Götz Friedrich, 32, the Komische Oper signaled its intentions by tacking up a "No One Under 18 Admitted" sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Last Week, East Berlin | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...since their exalted rank demanded a high dwelling place, they created a chain of mountains. On the most sacred eastern end of the island, the gods erected the highest of Bali's mountains, the 10,308-foot volcano of Gunung Agung, regarded by the Balinese as "The Navel of the World." Halfway up the slope of Agung, the pious Balinese built the huge mother temple of Besakih, and every hundred years they have held a solemn rite there to rid the island of ghosts. Last week, in the midst of the once-a-century festival, Agung erupted with catastrophic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bali: The Gods Speak | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

...Valletta, where V., disguised as the Bad Priest, is injured in a World War II air raid and is disassembled by a band of children: her glass eye is stolen; her false feet of amber and gold, with veins in intaglio are removed; a sapphire is dug from her navel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Myth of Alligators | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...demonstrates on a scale how little her sweater weighs when she puts it on. A disembodied set of naked legs cut off at the pelvis can be either a wonderfully sheer pair of stockings or somebody's erotic dream walking, and a model chosen for the most beautiful navel on Photographers' Row provides a giant closeup of her specialty to demonstrate the proper distance between a sweater and a pair of slacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Apres le Bain, or Aimez-Voux Lady Godiva? | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

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