Word: starlet
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...rise was almost a caricature of the starlet's climb to the top: birth in Brooklyn, a psychotic mother (who once threatened to kill Clara if she became an actress), first prize in a beauty contest at 16, a bit part that wound up on the cutting-room floor, a sympathetic producer (B. P. Schulberg), a role in a Big Movie, recognition...
Artists seem to enjoy making flags. Says Irving Kriesberg, 46, painter of limerick nonsense images: "It is like lithography-an image is reproduced economically, yet retains the force of originality." Pop Painter Marjorie Strider, 33, used unemotional sewing and deliberate placement of swatches to show a gap-jawed vampire starlet. Richard Lindner blended silk, satin, and leather to stitch together a sensual mix of sultriness and toughness in his portrait of a fiery sorcerer. Larry Rivers spent as much time reproducing his Dutch Masters on a banner as he did painting it. Cheerful, colorful, and casually breezy, they can make...
...twelve years, Farouk of Egypt wandered in exile. In public he wore dark glasses and was accompanied by two bodyguards who fended off newsmen and curious bystanders. In private Farouk endlessly pursued women and was reputed to know every call girl in Rome by name. When a starlet appeared on the Via Veneto with a new piece of jewelry, friends would examine it and ask "Farouk...
Born. To Vittorio Gassman, 42, Italian screen Romeo (The Easy Life), and Juliette Mayniel, 25, French starlet (The Cousins), who hopes to marry Gassman "soon": a son, his third child (he has two daughters born in wedlock to different mothers); in Rome...
Born. To Peter Sellers, 39, kinetic British comedian (30 films in ten years, among them Dr. Strangelove, A Shot in the Dark), and Second Wife Britt Eklund, 22, blonde Swedish screen starlet: a daughter (his third child); in London...