Word: twippet
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Instant Improvement. In two Ann-Margret TV specials and a role in Stanley Kramer's R.P.M., her screen personality seemed quieter, sweeter, more womanly. She had lost the twippet look. Her breasts with suspicious suddenness had taken on melony dimensions. Had she seen the silicone man? Ann-Margret said no. "When I put on weight, I put it on there." Lucky for her. Melony dimensions were required for the role of Bobbie in Carnal Knowledge...
Divorced. By Sandra Dee, 24, perennial Hollywood teen-age twippet (Take Her, She's Mine, That Funny Feeling); Bobby Darin, 30, nightclub singer (Mack the Knife); on grounds of mental cruelty; after six years of marriage, one son; in Los Angeles...
Take Her, She's Mine, adapted from the Broadway play, enunciates a proposition to which any reasonable man would eagerly subscribe: "Girls turn into women." But Jimmy Stewart is not a reasonable man. He plays the doting dad of a teen-aged twippet (Sandra Dee), and like most doting dads he has firmly decided that his little girl is always going to be a little girl...
...some risk to his professional standing, calls to collect his fee. He calls again. He sets the girl up in a pleasant apartment, then moves her into an elegant establishment in a more fashionable neighborhood. His wife (Edwige Feuillère) discreetly remonstrates; he brushes her off. The twippet cheats on him all the time; he overlooks it. When she announces that she is pregnant, he happily makes preparations to leave home, move in with his petite amie. The end is sudden, violent and squalid...
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