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| Thread ID: 55458 | 2005-03-11 02:30:00 | Working contracts? | Scouse (83) | PC World Chat |
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| 332944 | 2005-03-11 02:30:00 | Most people won't recall the film star who died on Sunday, Teresa Wright, aged 86. She secured Oscar nominations for her first three pictures - The Little Foxes (1941), Mrs Miniver and Pride of the Yankees (both 1942), and was nominated both as best actress (in Pride of the Yankees) and best supporting actress (Mrs Miniver), clinching the award for the latter. It gave her tremendous clout early in her career, and she used it to write into her contract with Samuel Goldwyn a clause of unprecedented audacity. "The aforementioned Teresa Wright," it stipulated, "shall not be required to pose for photographs in a bathing suit unless she is in the water. Neither may she be photographed on the beach with hair flying in the wind. Nor may she pose in any of the following situations: in shorts; playing with a cocker spaniel; digging in a garden; whipping up a meal; attired in firecrackers and holding sky rockets for the Fourth of July; looking insinuatingly at a turkey for Thanksgiving; wearing a bunny cap with long ears for Easter; twinkling on prop snow in a skiing outfit while a fan blows her scarf; or assuming an athletic stance while pretending to hit something with a bow and arrow." Not only was this exceptionally demanding; it had the effrontery to poke fun at the system. Sam Goldwyn swallowed his pride and signed it. Real cool. :cool: |
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| 332945 | 2005-03-11 05:15:00 | Don't forget Hunter S. Thomas who put a gun to his head and painted the wall with his brains a few weeks ago. Awesome guy, awesome writer. Everyone should go out and read 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' now, he reminds each of us just how important drugs are ;) - David |
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