Word: offscreen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Promise Her Anything. Shortly after splashing headlines last year as offscreen lovers in an unsavory divorce action, Leslie Caron and Warren Beatty pooled their talents in a sex farce. Surprisingly enough, it is an amiable, entertaining fiction and nowhere near so scandalous as life itself. As a young French widow with an infant son, Leslie oozes gamine charm in the direction of her boss, Robert Cummings, a child psychiatrist who sucks his thumb under stress. Beatty, in his first light comedy role, shows an unexpected flair for foolishness as Leslie's Greenwich Village neighbor, baby sitter and maker...
...feel, now that his bride of three months, sometime Actress Dyan Cannon, 27, is expecting a baby next May? "Ecstatic," beamed Cary, for whom it will be the first child in his four marriages. Later he explained that the way for a man to keep "pretty fit" offscreen is to "relax and lead a good, robust sex life...
Heading into another television season, American Broadcasting Co.'s schedule is chockablock with new shows -Gidget, Tammy, Honey West, Jesse James, The FBI, and an everyday offscreen cliffhanger that might be called Keep Your Eye on Norton Simon. The California industrialist, who has broadened his Hunt Foods into a far-reaching company (TIME cover, June 4), has been a prime stockholder in ABC for more than two years. Last week it was disclosed that he has bought much more stock through Hunt and a subsidiary, McCall Corp., boosting his stake from 6% to 9% of the outstanding shares...
...golfball-sized, 563.35-carat Star of India sapphire. Thus were recovered nine of the 24 sapphires, diamonds, rubies and emeralds that had been taken from New York City's American Museum of Natural History (TIME, Nov. 6) in one of the most imaginative jewel robberies ever perpetrated offscreen...
...Topkapi). This time, unfortunately, somebody's been tinkering with the formula. As Piet and Lucia go through their appointed rounds of deception and huff-and-puff chase, the reader begins to realize that too many of the motivations are phony, too much of the real action takes place offscreen, while too much of the onscreen talk comes out with a kind of freshly translated stiffness, as though the characters were speaking directly in English subtitles...