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...cupidity know no time zone. At Lehman's first meeting with Lancaster, the actor walked in zipping his fly and declaring, "She swallowed it!" Soon Lehman's writing assignments were extending beyond script work, according to Kate Buford's cogent biography, "Lancaster: An American Life," which gives the fullest account of the making of "Sweet Smell." Barbara Nichols, who was to play the sexy cigarette girl, had spent most of a recent night trysting with the film's producer, James Hill - like Lancaster, a notorious ladies' man. In the wee-smalls of that same night, she visited a woman friend...
...Irving Hoffman might not have been so peeved if Lehman hadn't borrowed the Steve Dallas subplot from an infamous episode in the lives of Winchell and his daughter Walda. (Walda Winchell - how's that for ego extension?) To judge from Neil Gabler's account in his excellent biography, "Winchell: Gossip, Power and the Culture of Celebrity," Bill Cahn was no apple-cheeked beacon of cool jazz and high ethics. He was a hustler who had done time for vagrancy and petty larceny, was busted for going AWOL during the War and was discharged after being diagnosed with severe hysteria...
...cars. Sadly, car manufacturers have said that higher efficiency requirements will create higher costs for consumers. This may be true in the short term, but over the life of a car, the extra production cost is well worth it when the huge savings in fuel costs is taken into account...
While the estimates do account for the costs of land preparation and the services of lawyers and architects, Dixon says construction of parking areas, landscaping and other extras would increase the costs even more...
...with the summer and job interviews looming ever nearer, I am determined. My strategy involves putting away five cents with every “like” until my struggling bank account succeeds where all else has failed. Soon, the only entrance of the “l-word” into my vocabulary will come with those much sought after words, “Yes I would like to work...