Word: greasepaints
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...most talented directors of American films have done their finest work the first time out. I'm thinking especially of Orson Welles and Citizen Kane and John Huston, who produced this hard-boiled masterpiece on his first feature assignment for Warner Brothers. Like Welles, Huston grew up around the greasepaint. And like Welles, Huston came to films with a gleeful yet prodigiously discriminating eye for characature and atmosphere-creating jargon. He handles Humphrey Bogart perfectly in the role of Sam Spade--by letting Bogart do Bogart, but without the "sentimantalist" soft spots of Rick in Casablanca or the nervousness...
...Joanie has just had such a marvelous success-I am so happy for her. Apart from acting, I love gardening, designing a garden, planting it, working in the earth. I find it sanity-provoking. I think I would have liked to have been a farmer. Earth and greasepaint are a very good...
...such an incredible factor in directing shows on Broadway. I don't think that working in summer stock helps you one bit in getting ahead in the theater. I don't think you learn a hell of a lot from painting somebody else's scenery. The roar of the greasepaint and all that is fun, sure--so long as you realize that's what you're getting out of it. I think the regional theaters, which are enormously different from summer stock, are very instructive. If I were starting out now I'd take work wherever I could...
...Lang's plays, at least, might garner a belated audience. Her keen sense of the theatrical has countered the recklessness of her peotics before--at an affecting reading shortly before her death, some of the spectators wondered if the shadows around her eyes had been deepened with greasepaint. Maybe Lurie hasn't admitted that the failure of her friend's writing to abide is less regretable than the loss of a strange improvisor of real experience...
...father, a wholesale meat dealer in Sunnyside, Queens, encouraged Caan to take up sports. It was as a teen-age basketball star that Jimmy first heard the roar of the greasepaint. After college, he spent four years at New York City acting schools. His idol was Brando ("Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done' Brando is lying"), and like him, Caan works from externals. "I wait for osmosis to take over," explains Jimmy...