Word: scarab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whenever they meet, and a good-guy roommate (Jerry Heist). The movie begins with Lerner's discovery of a dinner-jacketed corpse in what I take to be the foyer of A Entry. The dead man, actually a boy of approximately Lerner's age, is wearing a handsome scarab ring and clutching a curved dagger of ominously Eastern design. These melodramatic artifacts it transpires, are linked with the title character, (Ellen Anschuetz), a chic but enigmatic actress who is mistress of an elegant home on Francis Ave. She gets her property back with the help of her hirelings, a butler...
...likes old shoes, but does not mention where she was born. In the Playbill for Wholesale, she said that she was born in Madagascar and reared in Rangoon. It was easy enough to believe. After two martinis and an expense-account steak, Barbra's Pharaonic profile and scarab eyes suggest the Aswan High Dam, Nefertiti, and the whole Afro-Asian bit. Some minor poets have even brooded over her fathomless Mesopotamian stare, as if her unique countenance could only have developed somewhere between the Tigris and the Euphrates. In truth, however, she was born and raised between Newtown Creek...
...lead changed hands, while both drivers nursed their cars carefully, hoping for a break that would put them in front to stay. On the 38th lap, it came: Gurney had to stop for gas. The gas tank of his Lotus held only 40 gal. v. 50 for the Scarab. In the pit, the Lotus's starter froze, and by the time Gurney got back on the track, Foyt was a full lap ahead. Desperately, he tried to close the gap, but the strain was too much: on the 42nd lap, the Lotus was out for good with a broken...
...pair of hot new Porsches. But from the moment the time trials started, it was strictly a two-car race. Clark was not there, but Gurney was-in a bright red Lotus 19 with a 375-h.p. Ford Fairlane engine. Foyt's car was an older, rear-engined Scarab (formerly owned by Millionaire Playboy Lance Reventlow), outfitted with a 430-h.p. Chevrolet power plant. "Horsepower," Foyt grunted...
...feel of a wheel, but when it hit 25 m.p.h., Jill came tumbling after. Finally their two-year marriage went all aflivver and Jill sued for separate maintenance, demanding all of their communal property. Definitely not for her: the 1961 Porsche, Mercedes 3005L, 1936 Rolls-Royce, slinky Scarab racer and Cadillac hearse (for toting around skis and surfboards) that Lance quarters in the garage back of their $250,000 Beverly Hills, Calif, honeymoon cottage...