Word: ross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Third man Glen Whitman, coolly mixing boasts, lobs and reverse corner shots, breezed by Woody Tasch in three straight games, while fourth-seeded Neil Voters also overpowered Ross Read...
...ESSAY). Hundreds of new stars have burst onto U.S. screens before, of course, many of them producers' playmates, oversold or overaged stage ingenues, voices without bodies, bodies without voices, paper dolls cut out of publicity releases, inflatable, rubberized sex bombs. Liv is something different. Lost Horizon Producer Ross Hunter says, with characteristic modesty: "As soon as I met her I knew that if she would let me I could make her the most attractive woman on the screen. I decided to take a chance on her because I wanted to launch another Ingrid Bergman...
...still amusing. We are reminded of Thurber's feats as a rewrite man for the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune, his 20 successive rejections when he began submitting stories to The New Yorker, and all those cartoons on the walls of Costello's Bar. Harold Ross, The New Yorker editor, reappears in his role as the most woodenheaded genius in modern literature (Thurber made him funny in The Years with Ross, but he did not make him believable, a lapse that Biographer Holmes fails to note...
...Diana Ross is the greatest incongruity of all since she, the slick singer, superstar, and immediate singing success is such a questionable choice for the leading role. In several recent interviews, she said that for a year she read about Holiday and listened only to her recordings. The product supports Ross, who offers a sensitive interpretation of Holliday which shows that she went beyond a superficial investigation of Lady Day's personality. For instance, Holliday was well know for being languid, but Ross plays her as a normally vivacious woman whose lethargy is a byproduct of an addiction to heroin...
Sidney Furie's directing compensates somewhat for this casting problem, especially when he uses black and white photographic montage: The images tone down Ross's star quality and, without the glitter, she makes a much more realistic Holliday. They serve another purpose by presenting the valleys of the singer's career in an effective, but not banal manner. Her rigorous prison sentence is portrayed by a few still photographs accompanied by a voice-over of Ross singing "Lady Sings the Blues." No acting could have been as moving...