Word: perfectionistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bridges) takes her out to lunch, the stuffy maitre d' tries to kick her out for wearing a pantsuit. Belinda blithely drops her trousers and sits down anyway. "It was a wonderful moment," recalls the sometime model, "but then I'm an exhibitionist." She is also a perfectionist: for her first film role-Belinda, 26, plays a reporter for a national newsmagazine-she spent days observing journalists. "I learned that women reporters are everything from sweet little old ladies to dynamic young women," she says. "Whatever they are, they always have to think fast...
...tower she had built on top of it," complains Giancarlo, who starred in Seven Beauties, Swept Away and three other Wertmuller movies. "That's typical of Lina, to alter everything she finds, even a skyscraper." When it came to filming scenes with Co-Star Candice Bergen, the perfectionist director was equally demanding. Says Giannini: "We must have embraced each other 600 times." · Most dancers do their plies at the bar, but one of the New York City Ballet's principal dancers also practices hers in the pool. In the Water Beauty Book (St. Martin's Press...
Still, the transition from team member to coach can be tough, and West's prospects seemed particularly slim. After all, he was an inexperienced perfectionist with a collection of castoffs that boasted but one real star, Abdul-Jabbar. Faced with this situation, West made a key decision that would have been difficult for someone with less self-confidence: instead of the usual single aide, he hired two experienced assistant coaches. Jack McCloskey, former Portland Trail Blazer coach, directs the Lakers' defensive training; Stan Albeck, who once coached with Wilt Chamberlain and who helped develop Artis Gilmore into...
...Clockwork Orange. Malcolm McDowell's Alex and his trusted droogs mug, rape and generally terrorize their way through a British Sodom masquerading as a civilized society. If your stomach holds out, your sensory organs will be grateful; this is first-rate Kubrick, and you'll appreciate the perfectionist approach to his craft evident in every scene as he spares no detail in creating this nightmarish conception of the fate awaiting modern society...