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...established a writing credo which has been called chosisme ("thingishness"). In extreme moments, thingishness runs to steady repetition of precise, often geometrical descriptions of anything from a razor blade to a banana plantation. U.S. moviegoers have been subjected to the incantatory power of the Robbe-Grillet technique in the off-screen commentary he wrote for the narrator in Last Year at Marienbad (for some it had a soporific monotony). Objects are important to Robbe-Grillet in themselves, but also in relation to people. "A sofa cushion," he has explained, "may not be very exciting. But if you have...
Seemingly headed for an off-screen Oscar for her supporting role in a deep-water drama was Jayne Mansfield, 28. Water-skiing from a chartered outboard off Nassau, the busty cinemorsel, her muscleman husband Mickey ("Mr. Universe of 1956") Hargitay and a friendly publicist suddenly turned up missing-a calamity that evoked outsize headlines all across the U.S. plus a massive. Coast Guard-led search. Rescued after a night on a lonely islet, the castaways explained that Jayne had frenziedly overturned their boat after the party spotted sharks (in waters in which the Nassau Yacht Club hadn't seen...
...October; the following month, faced with the threat of surgery when the infection did not respond well to antibiotic treatment, he stopped writing his column as well. Since then, his only work has been narrating The Untouchables, a cops-and-robbers TV show in which he is an off-screen voice, reading a prepared script...
Ocean's 11. Frank Sinatra's off-screen clansters (Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr.) as their usual tough-talking, gamboling selves ham up a Las Vegas robbery with enough foolishness to make it look like...
Ocean's 11. Frank Sinatra's off-screen clansters (Dean Martin, Peter Lawford Sammy Davis Jr. et al), as their usual tough-talking, gamboling selves, ham up a Las Vegas robbery with enough foolishness to make it look like...