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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play contains stinging parodies of Biblical episodes such as the marriage feast of Cana and the death and resurrection of Lazarus. It also has the sexuality of a wet dream, with one character rubbing a loaf of bread against his groin until he achieves orgasm. Perhaps the most unsettling sight and sound of the evening is that of several characters in turn biting into the naked side of the Christ figure and sucking his blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Grotowski's Seminar | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...years ago to hold off the entire critical elite of cinema and conquer mankind through Hollywood. Now only 29, she has enjoyed extraordinary success. Her brooding, aquiline face and brimming, arabesque body (37-22-35) have launched thousands of picture spreads. The mere mention of her name (or the sight of it, in endless Laugh-In balloon gags) is high-premium chuckle insurance for every TV and nightclub humor writer in the land. After 15 films that range, except for Bedazzled, from unintentionally risible to just plain awful, she is worth more than $4,000,000, earns about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Myra/Raquel: The Predator of Hollywood | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

Destiny's child and Beaver's buddy met in 1964?smack in the poetic middle of Sunset Strip. It was business at first sight. As Raquel recalls it: "He saw me and I saw him, and we put our heads together." The result of this cerebral huddle was the creation?three weeks later?of Curtwel enterprises. Shortly thereafter, things began to happen. Bikini picture in LIFE. Billboard girl on ABC-TV's Hollywood Palace. Twentieth Century-Fox contract. Said Fox Talent Director Owen McLean: "We thought we would build her up slowly; that it would take some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Myra/Raquel: The Predator of Hollywood | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...play the hammer or the anvil. Zozo, as he was nicknamed, had no doubts about which role he intended to take. Blessed with a middle-class background, a sound Jesuit education, a phenomenal memory and a wit to match his impudence, Voltaire hammered on every anvil in sight with an exuberance no enlightened common sense could quite explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Chaos of Clarity | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...kissing those he presumed to be his friends on both checks. The trouble was that all his friends were Englishmen, or normal height, and he was about 4'10". Hence to reach each check he had to hop, and his helloes and good-byes became increasingly more hilarious sight gags...

Author: By Frederic C. Bartter jr., | Title: Shakespeare and the RSC | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

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