Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
Hunting down photographers for a new ad campaign, Designer Bill Blass figured, why not the best? So he persuaded Sir Cecil Beaton, 73, to end his three-year retirement. Last week Britain's grand old man of photography dusted off his cameras to shoot two models decked out in creations Blass calls "very romantic, à la Moulin Rouge." Highly positive about his negatives, Beaton says: "I shall continue to do a lot more. This was just the beginning." What made him agree to the project? "They were two very pretty dresses and two very pretty girls...
...incident colored the rest of her life. Archibald Christie, a chilly, willful man, remarried anyway. Agatha spent the next years mostly out of England, traveling in remote parts of the Middle East until she found a kinder husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. She began to create a series of lonely, high-strung heroines, and soon fashioned a sleuth, Jane Marple, whose method of detection is based on solid premises: appearances are misleading and to trust is to be deceived...
Chicago Symphony Conductor Sir Georg Solti slipped as he stepped out of an elevator, and his assistant fell into a heroine's role. With Solti bedridden after straining a ligament in his back, Symphony Chorus Director Margaret Hillis, 56, was tapped as a last-minute stand-in to conduct a Manhattan performance of Mahler's difficult Eighth Symphony. Hillis spent an hour with the ailing maestro going over the score, listened to a radio tape of an earlier performance, and with just two days' preparation stepped up to the conductor's podium in Carnegie Hall...
...Chairman Edwardes, consequently, will have time to try to make sense out of Leyland's disorganized management structure. He succeeds Sir Richard Dobson, who hastened his own departure by making injudicious remarks about Leyland "bribing Wogs"-a reference to allegations of overseas payoffs by Leyland. Dobson spoke at a private dinner party, but a guest tape-recorded his comments, and they were later published...