Double StarOne minute, down and out actor Lorenzo Smythe was -- as usual -- in a bar, drinking away his troubles as he watched his career go down the tubes. Then a space pilot bought him a drink, and the next thing Smythe knew, he was shanghaied to Mars. |
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... actor . As my father used to say , " Larry , you are too damned pretty ! If you don't get off your lazy duff and learn the business , you are going to spend fifteen years as a juvenile , under the mistaken impres- sion that you are an actor ...
... actor . As my father used to say , " Larry , you are too damned pretty ! If you don't get off your lazy duff and learn the business , you are going to spend fifteen years as a juvenile , under the mistaken impres- sion that you are an actor ...
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... actor alive . It was done as discreetly as pos- sible but somebody might have guessed - and talked . The specifications amounted to identification both of the principal and the actor who could double for him , since the job had to be ...
... actor alive . It was done as discreetly as pos- sible but somebody might have guessed - and talked . The specifications amounted to identification both of the principal and the actor who could double for him , since the job had to be ...
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... actor . Is that a reason for you to insult me ? " She simply looked stubborn . " As an actor , I am here to do an actor's job . You know why . You know , too , that I was tricked into taking it — it is not a job I would have accepted ...
... actor . Is that a reason for you to insult me ? " She simply looked stubborn . " As an actor , I am here to do an actor's job . You know why . You know , too , that I was tricked into taking it — it is not a job I would have accepted ...
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