Word: starlets
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Married. John Barrymore Jr., 28, bearded son of The Great Profile; and Italian Starlet Gabriella Palazzoli, 23; he for the second time, she for the first; in a church atop Rome's Palatine Hill...
Reminiscent of his late great-profiled father, Actor John Barrymore Jr., 28, whose profile is partially obscured by dense shrubbery, has spent most of this month in the headlines and eight days of it in a Roman jail. His troubles revolve around a pretty girl, Italian Starlet Gabriella ("Gaby") Palazzoli, 23. A street brawl erupted when three Roman punks taunted two of Gaby's brothers about young Barrymore's beard-a male appurtenance made to order for some special Italian insults. After the brawlers were hauled off to Rome's Queen of Heaven clink, Barrymore, Gaby...
...jumped in a car to drive to her side. At week's end the aging "Sex Kitten" of French moviedom was recovering. Paris' deadly serious Le Monde, customarily oblivious to BB, accorded her a sort of ghoulish obituary-in-life: "Once upon a time there was a starlet who saw happiness only in glory. She had glory beyond all expectations. Even her name vanished and remained only as two initials: BB. Glory devoured everything: private life, peace, human personality-real or imagined...
...life." That led Templeton to the further discovery that he had an electric touch with religious audiences, and he went off to spend three years on the sawdust trail as an itinerant preacher for the fundamentalist Church of the Nazarene. In California he met and married a Hollywood starlet named Constance Orozco...
...cannot sing so well as he used to or act any better than he ever did, that does not much matter either. A younger generation-represented mainly by France's Nicole Maurey, by a sort of Elvis Presley with muscles called Fabian, and by a starlet known as Tuesday Weld, who displays at least as much acting ability as Monday Wash-takes over with plenty of energy, if not much style. And Director Blake Edwards runs the show with all sorts of technical razzle-dazzle: the wide-screen wipes are a clever touch, the hurry-ups are corny...