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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long-Hair Horse Opera | 1/2/1961 | See Source »

...Lost World (Irwin Allen; 20th Century-Fox) exhibits Claude Rains in a red fright-wig, and Jill St. John in-just barely-a pair of pink slacks. These wonders notwithstanding, the most intriguing performers, as is only proper in a Good-Lord-Professor-Can-It-Be? film, are several dinosaurs. Their eyes blaze, their mattress-sized tongues flick menacingly, and their lank green hides glisten in squamous grandeur. They thrash about like lovers in a French art film, roar like convention orators and, when they are hungry, give new depth and meaning to scenery chewing. When two of them duel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 18, 1960 | 7/18/1960 | See Source »

...High Time, Crooner Bing Crosby, 56, plays the role of a middle-aged restaurateur who hankers for a college education. After matriculating in a Southern institution, Crosby has to survive a fraternity initiation requiring him to crash a cotillion ball as a belle. All trigged up in a blonde wig, false eyelashes, lipstick, rouge and falsies, Crosby volunteered: "No wonder the ladies of the day got the vapors and fainted. I feel like a barrel with the staves too tight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 23, 1960 | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

...came Karandash, Russia's greatest clown, lost in a flapping green suit, grotesque beneath a scarlet wig, riding a donkey fitted with handle bars. He tumbled off, pulled out a hammer and a plate and began a flurry of legerdemain that ended in a sidesplitting snarl of chaos and shattered crockery. In blue tights flashing with gold, the three blonde Balakin sisters spun aluminum hoops in a shimmering blur. To the frantic rhythms of Khachaturian's Saber Dance, the three Gratchevs flung whole tribes of Indian clubs at one another while wobbling on a rope strung between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Reddest Show on Earth | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...wanted at the concierge's!" When things quieted down, Puck emerged from a wicker basket, wearing a pair of baby-blue wings, and three saucy minxes (Titania, Hermia. Helena) bumped and ground their way across the stage. In Sonnet for Sister Kate, an untamed shrew in an orange wig and a southof-the-navel decollete shimmied front and center, then disappeared into the wings, where she was received by the chatter of an offstage machine gun. In Lady Mac, a racy temptress in slinky black writhed atop the piano, then hopped to the floor to join four muscular gangsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: To Beat or Not to Beat | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

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