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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...
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...
...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...
...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...