Actors: Waiting for a Poisoned Peanut

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Few stars could get away with Mitchurn's approach to moviemaking, and few want to. "I've still got the same attitude I had when I started," he likes to boast. "I haven't changed anything but my underwear." Therein lies his personal color—and his professional drabness. Is there still a chance for him to unveil his talent? "That would require a lot more exposure of himself," says Actress Polly Bergen. "And he's not sure that he likes what's inside him, which is a shame." Not to Mitchum. Rich, languid, self-hating, self-loving, he can make a claim shared by only a handful of Hollywood veterans. In a town where fashions in faces change with the tides, he has survived. For Mitchum, that seems to be enough.