Word: offscreen
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...Poodles in Shorts. But no more so than her life offscreen. Born of a French father ("He's distantly related to Bach," says her pressagent) and Mexican mother ("a descendant of a conquistador'') in Hollywood, Yvette attended Catholic schools, studied for a year in Mexico City before settling down at Hollywood High School. She didn't get very far. For once upon a summer day, while horseback riding through the Hollywood Hills, she was startled to see a helicopter swoop down from the sky. Out stepped Pressagent Jim Byron ("that's spelled BYRON...
...slickly handled show-almost too slick. Director Douglas Heyes had occasional trouble compensating for Princess Grace's "adopted diplomatic accent: we tried to keep the pace of her speech up so she didn't sound too British." Offscreen, he combined formality with familiarity by addressing her as "Your Highness-honey." Rainier tended to be more relaxed about the whole thing. When Grace muttered her apprehensions about Princess Caroline going down to the zoo with a cold. Rainier quipped: "In that case let's get some other little brat-nobody will know the difference." Caroline went...
...firm restraint that never conceals a deep-felt conviction that Stroud should not be in stir at all. Inevitably, this is Stroud's side of the case, as originally unearthed by Social Worker Thomas E. Gaddis in his 1955 book, Bird Man of Alcatraz. Fact is, Stroud, offscreen. was a stiff-necked, arrogant, impenitent man and at least initially a homicidal threat to society. Like Caryl Chessman, he had just enough brilliance and flair for publicity to amass widespread public sympathy for his cause...
...naked woman flashed on a motion-picture screen set up at an Army Air Forces base in the Libyan desert near Bengasi one baking July day in 1943. The assembled pilots, navigators, bombardiers and gunners roared their approval. Offscreen an announcer's voice intoned that the assembled airmen were about to strike a virgin target. Its name: Ploesti...
...there are times when even The Clan cannot keep Shirley going, when she withdraws into a corner to stare at the wall or struggle with sudden tears, The Clan accepts this, too. Her sudden shifts of mood and attention are as striking offscreen as on. The core of her life, she insists, is her family, her Japan-based husband Steve Parker and her two-year-old daughter Stephanie. Friends still remember with a kind of awed surprise the evening she brought Steffie to a party, stuck the child in a wicker basket and put her in a closet to sleep...