Word: actress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hughes married twice. In 1925, at 19, he wed Ella Rice, a comely home-town girl from a prominent Houston family. They were divorced four years later. In 1957, he married Actress Jean Peters, who also had homespun qualities. She gave up her film career and joined Hughes in seclusion until they parted after 15 years; she got a settlement of $50,000 annually for life...
...third marriage of eight years, beginning about 1949, is claimed by Actress Terry Moore. She says that Hughes contrived to meet her after seeing her in a film. "He couldn't take his eyes off me," she recalls. "It was terrifying. He was an old man of 43. He needed a shave. His collar was frayed. His mustache was scraggly. I was afraid of what the kids at Glendale High would say if they saw me out with an old man like this...
...yards away, another writer was playing a joke on Jane Curtain, an attractive "Saturday Night" actress. The writer had taken a surgical glove and stretched it tightly across the top of a quarter. The coin stuck to the underside of the glove, but the rubber was so thin that the quarter appeared to be sitting upon it. He walked over to Curtain's desk and pressed the top of the quarter, which fell magically to the desk, and the writer walked away giggling, leaving Curtain to try to find a nonexistent hole in the glove. "Stupid trick," Curtain shouted...
...never even took a single Physics course at Harvard," he said. "I had a real crisis freshman year, I just didn't know what I was going to do. I guess I always wanted to do an act with Tom." Franken paused to wave to Michaels and actress Gilda Radner as they passed by the office door. "Anyhow," he continued, "my partner and I worked together for a couple of summers. I guess it was the ones between my sophomore year and my senior year. We were really lucky, we got booked in a place in Minneapolis. Our stuff...
...most eloquent message from last week's 48th Academy Awards went by hand. It said: "Thank you for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true." Louise Fletcher, who had just won an Oscar for Best Actress of the Year, was passing along the good news in sign language to her deaf parents watching television in Birmingham, conscribing the words, etching the phrases, with smooth movements of arms and hands, as tears edged down her cheeks...