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...lucrative fashion career for the uncertainty of the cinema. Director Ken Russell (Women in Love), who will do her first flick, says: "She'll be the greatest thing to hit the screen since Monroe." "It's got to be something nice," insists the 91-lb. cockney sprite best known as Twiggy. "I couldn't do a big sexy role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 23, 1970 | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...were joined by Brian, another assistant to Roy. People began to drink various concoctions of Sprite, vodka, and bloody Mary's. Gary and I went to look for beer as a "feasible alternative," as they say, but failed to find any. Brian suggested that we have some champagne instead (it being the same color and gaseous...

Author: By (douglas B. Smith, | Title: The Real Unexciting Life of Roy M. Cohn | 11/12/1969 | See Source »

...MISER. Robert Symonds gives his best performance yet with the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater as the mock hero of Moliere's comedy. Skittering about like a bespectacled magpie, his Harpagon is a sprite of the cashbox, a stringy-haired witch of usury. To see him is a pleasure. To see him undone is a delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 30, 1969 | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...MISER. Robert Symonds gives his best performance yet with the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater as the mock hero of Moliere's comedy. Skittering about like a bespectacled magpie, his Harpagon is a sprite of the cashbox, a stringy-haired witch of usury. To see him is a pleasure. To see him undone is a delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Cinema: may 23, 1969 | 5/23/1969 | See Source »

...brings this miserable creature to robustious life in his best performance yet with the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater. Although he is always an actorish actor, his tendency to overplay is precisely right for this petty monster of farce. Skittering about like a bespectacled magpie, Symonds' Harpagon is a sprite of the cashbox, an imp of interest rates, a tooth-clacking, raggedy-cloaked, stringy-haired witch of usury. To see him is a pleasure. To see him undone is a delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Repertory: Money, Money, Money | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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