Word: ava
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...decade, Sinatra pushed to make a cohesive LP at a time when no one else in the record business was thinking beyond singles. Finally his breakup with Ava Gardner provided the perfect catalyst. These 16 ballads, recorded in just a few days, are the authoritative take on masculine loneliness...
Kobal includes some exuberant memoirs. Producer Arthur Freed reconstructs the difficult casting of Show Boat: "I love Dinah [Shore], and she finally said: 'Why don't you give me the part?' And I said: 'Because you're not a whore . . . Ava is.'" Joel McCrea explains his laconic independence: "I owned 1,000 acres, which I paid very little for, and which I sold for $5 million...
...Christa Worthington, 46, a former fashion writer, was found dead, stabbed through the heart in a doorway of her bungalow. Alive and clinging to her was Ava, 21/2, her daughter, who had spent 36 hours alone with the body. The killer had stabbed Worthington so powerfully that the blade had left a mark in the floorboards beneath her. It appeared that Ava had tried to tend to her mother, dabbing her face with a washcloth. "Mommy fell down," she sobbingly told the person who found...
Worthingtons had lived in Truro for generations. In fact, one of the first rescue workers at the scene was Christa's cousin. Christa had moved there from New York City to care for her sick mother. She had had an affair with a local fisherman, which produced Ava. After her mother died, Christa decided to stay. In her shingled house on a hill, surrounded by a tangle of spindly trees, she had started a new life, although not necessarily a frictionless one. What with family strains and frustrated romances, there were plenty of obvious suspects. Semen was found on Worthington...
...between frequent retirements, the "King of Swing" recorded such hits as Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, Moonglow and Dancing in the Dark with his eponymous big band and the Grammercy Five. A brainy and sometimes irascible perfectionist who was married eight times (including to Lana Turner and Ava Gardner), Shaw had little patience for the music business, which he quit for good...