Word: shalimar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Professor Higgins has tossed out his tweed hat for a headdress. The star of My Fair Lady is a very different kind of gent in his latest film, Shalimar. This time Rex Harrison plays a chap called Sir John, "the world's greatest jewel thief," who lives on an island in the Indian Ocean with his own private army. "The character I play is different from the usual," says Rex. "Sir John is slightly tougher and demented and more sadistic." He is also crafty. To scare off a band of would-be murderers, he dons...
...Bruce and I had readied. The only people who were left collected in the mellow room, and the late-nighters who would keep it up past the dawn and had only then arrived jammed armchairs with gossip and marijuana before passing on. Sixteen point seven per cent of the Shalimar Six left at nearly 3 a.m. after dancing for six hours, and John, who had spent the best hour of the bash behind the bar, surrendered to a water...
Besides, the show is starting. Usherettes in mascara and Shalimar sell programs and herd the audience into the theater. Most of these socialites' names can be found under "publicity" in the back of this 71-page PR job, accompanied by a picture--in true Freshman Register style. The lights go down, a spot comes up on stage and Blake blunders into it like an oversized moth. He "doesn't quite know what to say," but the producers, practiced in this sort of thing, can say it all. Having been expertly guided through his performance, the star of Baretta stumbles offstage...
...cool night air like Shalimar...