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...Still starstruck, she got a secretarial job at the William Morris talent agency. "Then it dawned on me that I could handle people better than the schmucks in the agency making $100,000." In 1963 she formed a partnership with Agent Tom Korman, "and I've never ridden in a public conveyance since." Swathed in a pay-as-you-go mink, she set out to steal stars from the big agencies. "We preyed on people who were out of work," she laughs. "In those days I was so driven I would have booked Martin Bormann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Sweet and Sour Sue | 3/26/1973 | See Source »

Cassandra Warshowsky plays a maid with bright, starstruck eyes, a face fast as quicksilver and an awkward energy that has Liza Minelli written all over it. Donnally Miller's vague and woeful wildman has a strange way of displaying innocent curiosity. He even speaks his lines as if they themselves are a source of wonderment-it's perfect. Laure Solet's performance brings the concept of complaint to its highest reaches, with a successful method that can only be called nervous nonchalance. All in all Sam Shepard's play is so vigorously acted that one's magnanimity cannot help...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: It Won't Work on Paper | 3/24/1973 | See Source »

...appeared in Rome for the first day's shooting of The Lady's Vengeance, it was clear that time must have a stop. Radiant and regal in a white Bangkok-silk suit, she was playing the richest woman in the world and even celeb-weary Italians were starstruck. Every one cheered delightedly a few days later when Ingrid, her Co-Star Anthony Quinn and Bette Davis-all two-time Oscar winners-were awarded Italy's own palm, the Silver Mask award, for exceptional contributions to the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 20, 1963 | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

...picture is, however, not altogether a thing of sheer wonder. The "hero," for instance, in his attempt to portray a starstruck artisan, wears a stunned, ox-like expression, and looks at all times like a ballet dancer converted for the occasion. In fact, his wooden absorption with creating the stone flower to the neglect of his unkissed bride and an amorous fairy queen, will for a while make you wonder about him. And Hollywoodisms creep in: the background music continually dictates what mood you must get in for upcoming scenes. And the seeking mind can read Significance into several episodes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 7/11/1947 | See Source »

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