Word: talentless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look or act like a secondhand Julie Christie. Not especially prepossessing or crafty, she is totally free of mannerisms, as natural as someone on a Chelsea sidewalk. Her fellow players seem equally and effectively plucked from real life. The best of them is Donald Sutherland, as a frail, talentless aristocrat, whose tentative worship of the Beautiful People is so well portrayed that it turns a bit part into a leading role...
Despite the title, playwright Ronald Alexander has male the albatross, Nat Bentley, a talentless television writer-producer played by Robert Preston, the only lovable aspect of his play. Bentley is the same sort of appealing, good-natured fraud that Preston played in The Music Man. He cons other people into doing his thinking and writing for him, but he has no self-delusions...
...Drunken, talentless Pat Hobby-his eyes are "red-rimmed" in most of the 17 stories-is part a caricature of Hollywood, part Fitzgerald making faces at the mirror. Hobby, who once drew $2,500 a week, now connives to get past the studio gatekeeper; Fitzgerald, who once could finance a summer at Juan-les-Pins with a weekend of woodshedding, was reduced to begging Esquire Magazine Editor Arnold Gingrich: "The address is the Bank of America, Culver City, and I wish you'd wire the money if you like this story. Notice that this is pretty near twenty-eight...
Esther Williams was fed up with television-too much crawl, not enough free style-and she said so in a newspaper interview, complaining that talentless network executives had all but foundered an aquatic show she had done for NBC earlier in the summer. It didn't even matter to her that the show had won one of the highest ratings of the summer: its mediocrity pained her. To Critic John Crosby, this was his cup of chlorine, and last week he took over where Critic Williams had left off. In his New York Herald Tribune column, he expanded...