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...whose every misstep makes thousands leer. Because her passions are only skin-deep, her tragedy is trivial. But at every toss of her blonde mane, every shard of a smile, all else on the screen becomes mere backdrop. Her stunning presence-and Schlesinger's stylish tracking of a playgirl's progress -makes Darling irresistible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Playgirl's Progress | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

...pair of boots for bad-weather soliciting, and Belmondo snaps: "Boots attract perverts." When the gendarmes threaten to put him out of business, he marries a virginal barmaid (Marie Dubois), operates her café until she turns shrewish, then flees to Greece and sells himself to an aged playgirl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Three to Go | 4/30/1965 | See Source »

...fraternity brothers taught unawakened Undergraduate Jerry Payne "how to tip 'em up more and blow lunch less." But it is Coed Pookie Adams who is the making of him and of the whole first novel of John Nichols (Hamilton College, '62). Pookie is part tomboy, part playgirl, a sort of Alice in Wonderland with carnal vocabulary-and knowledge. And even when she is using both, Pookie is whimsical about it. Her most whimsical proposition is that she and Jerry make out in the phone booth while calling her minister back home in Indiana for his opinion on premarital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Jan. 22, 1965 | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...Hara's novel Butterfield 8, the author took it as the handsome compliment it was intended to be. The journalist in O'Hara ever lurks just beneath the surface of the novelist; Butterfield 8, in fact, was a piece of reportorial fiction based on a playgirl's mysterious death. Last week, the journalist in Novelist O'Hara was assured a proper hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: Appointment on Long Island | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

Divorced. By Jill St. John, 23, neon-haired Hollywood playgirl: Lance Reventlow, 27, auto-racing son of Millionairess Barbara Hutton; on the ground of mental cruelty (she said he bullied her into "participating in dangerous sports"); after 3½ years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles. Settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 8, 1963 | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

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