Word: wig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of the funny lines: "I'm not interested," she bellows at her Nigerian boy friend, "in being somebody's little episode in America." But Actress McNeil, worshiped by Broadway critics as an Earth Mother, too often on the screen suggests a mean old man in a wig. And Actor Poitier, though always exciting to watch, never quite starts living his role, never quite stops playing the black Brando...
...fumbly baby sitter who suddenly goes on the loose with her three young charges, causing nocturnal havoc as she careens about and more havoc when it comes out who she is. Her son finds her and confesses what fun she has always really been, and she ruefully abandons her wig and her wandering to go home...
...geisha was a trifle tall-6 ft. 1 from zoris to lacquered wig-and during dinner one of her contact lenses popped into the noodles. This left one eye brown and the other blue, but the Japanese businessmen at Kyoto's Club Osome were captivated. After a few fan flutters and giggles masked by tapered fingers, she left them and tottered back to her own table with tiny, toe-in steps of studied helplessness. To her friends she murmured, "Hey, I got a job. This company president said I should meet him later...
...girl beneath the wig, rice powder and rubber eyelids was Hollywood's Shirley MacLaine, the rowdy, redheaded comedienne (CanCan, The Apartment) whose behavior, both on and off screen, is more gusher than geisha. She downed her sake like a longshoreman and sneezed into the hot towels. But in three strenuous days last week, she became a creditable novice at the famed Gion geisha school. The reason she is pretending to be a geisha is that she has a role in a movie in which she will portray an American actress pretending to be a geisha. And the reason...
...probably could not have cared less. He might have resented the fact that Author Russell discovered that his celebrated long hair was filled with lice when he was a boy and even more deeply resented the revelation that later, when B. B. was in show biz, he wore a wig that came off during the introduction of his Wild West show...