Word: spilling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea comes to him as he chats with his "irrefragably feminine" mistress, TV Star Flaire Daire. It is a "big 1960" idea: voters love babies. After a bit of coaxing, Mrs. Adams agrees to spill some pseudo pregnancy news over Flaire's national TV hookup.* Unfortunately, a makeup artist named Jacques Mario Jean Petrovich goes into a dither over Mrs. Adams' "firm ample tummy [which] was shaped like the underside of a round 15-inch skillet." The pair are about to start cooking with gas when Blade starts playing Bogart with Jacques's face ("Slap...
Will it cause marital rancor? I wonder if it was unwise For TIME to spill the Sanka...
...missiles of anything except extreme range. Army doctrine is that missiles are fine things, but they must be rugged, transportable, and easily concealed. Most important of all, they must be "G.I.-proof"; they will be under the care of plain soldiers, who will drop them, kick them, neglect them, spill ketchup on them. If made like laboratory instruments, they will not perform on the battlefield worth a G.I. damn...
...this sense, Julie's emotional power is the opposite of the kind most strong emotional actors have. It is intensive, not extensive. From Booth to Brando, audiences have loved the actor who can spill his guts in their laps. Julie's instinct is not toward dissolution, but solution. In her search for clarity she has developed a more conscious craft than most of her contemporaries have. "When Julie is at the height of her most emotional scene," says Fellow Actor Karloff, "she is always in complete control of herself, just as a fine pianist is always master...
...talking loose. "She's dishonest," somebody remarks. "She won't stay bought." The hatchet man concludes: "She'll have to be removed." Murder, however, is too rich for the star's blood. He lets the producer know that if anybody is killed he will spill his guts to the police. In a rage, the producer fires him. Free at last, but with no strength left to face his freedom, the star commits suicide...