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...seductive allure would be in full glow, the meld of her sexuality fired by the challenge of another woman." Fortunately, Kosinski's kinks are a minor portion of Passion Play. The reader who can get past horse-and-lady scenes that bear no relation to International Velvet will be rewarded with passages of great force...
...costumes of any Diaghilev ballet, that for Nemtchinova in the adagietto in Les Biches, reached its final form, are therefore of interest. We have seen how Laurencin's nebulous watercolors had been evolved by Sudeikina and Kochno ... Nemtchinova appeared before Diaghilev's eyes in a long blue velvet frock-coat, like that of a head porter in a hotel. 'Give me the scissors, Grigoriev!' Diaghilev exclaimed. He cut away the collar, to make a wide V-neck. He cut away the velvet, till it barely covered the buttocks. Nemtchinova had never shown so much leg before...
...Huey Newton, Bishop James Pike. Charles Manson peers in at the window. Linda Kasabian, the star prosecution witness against Manson, recruited Didion at one point to go to I. Magnin in Beverly Hills and buy her a dress for court: "Size 9 Petite. Mini but not extremely mini. In velvet if possible." Didion and Roman Polanski turn out to be godparents to the same child...
...right, maybe the little cutup over there in the corner will never be Roddy McDowall in How Green Was My Valley. And maybe the princess maneuvering her Barbies around the doll house will never be Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet or Jean Simmons making her way through Great Expectations and Olivier's Hamlet with certainty and erotic grace. But to one degree or another, most kids-even yours-are actors anyway. Before a camera, most could be great if they did not learn, for whatever reasons of self-defense, to be cute and lovable. They turn into the celluloid...
Child actors started to carry their share of the weight of heightened political and social reality. "I think it is the most hopeful business of movies to find the perfect people rather than the perfect artists," wrote James Agee in a review of National Velvet that was like a prose sonnet to the young Elizabeth Taylor...