Word: novak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Notorious Landlady. "Oyme jus' the parlor mide," says Kim Novak in her best Berlitz cockney. "Are you a sleep-in maid?" asks arch Jack Lemmon, with his eyes doing the twist. "Coo, yew Yanks do kum raht aout wiv it, don't yew?" wuffles the new Eliza Doolittle. "Well, most of it, anyway," says Lemmon, a film comedian who knows how to throw away a line before it deserts...
...impenetrable as a London fog: Mr. Hardwicke appears, only to be duly and ambiguously shot and killed by Mrs. Hardwicke. The ensuing trial scene could well have been edited out. But whenever the script gets draggy, Director Richard Quine perks things up with a sight gag-like Kim Novak tubbing with the nude serenity of the White Rock girl while the intruding Lemmon clicks his eyes open and shut at the speed of a navy signal light. In a berserk finale, Novak trades punches with a lady nurse the size of a Japanese Sumo wrestler, and Lemmon goes...
...once a week; and best of all, only the hair sits under the dryer. Still, $250 is a fairly stiff price (really fine custom wigs can cost as much as $1,500) and at first wig-wearers consisted mostly of actresses, among them Shirley Booth, Judy Holliday. Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor (who lost nine of her twelve wigs in last year's Bel Air fire...
...into which the instructions are fed in the form of the chapter headings." Replied the normally urbane Sir Charles: "I would only want to respond on the plane of reason, and this does not afford such an opportunity." - Bravely breasting the chill Moscow winds, Hollywood's touring Kim Novak, 29. showed up in Red Square with fond hopes of thawing out the cold war in a cultural offensive of sorts. Her dreams of starring in a U.S.-Soviet co-production were heightened as U.S. Producer Lester Cowan and Soviet state film makers agreed to collaborate on a screen version...
...spook imagination run on even further. He began with a vulture-close view of a human eye, then moved in side the eye. where spinning, vertiginously kaleidoscopic patterns appeared and changed form, starting Hitchcock's shocker with a Rorschacher. The names went by - James Stewart, Kim Novak - under abstract suggestions of nuzzling dolphins, pregnant terns and wooing rattlesnakes...