Word: ava
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...more adventurous, rejecting formulas to experiment with instrumentation and arrangements. Between frequent retirements, he recorded with his eponymous Big Band, the Gramercy Five and other groups, producing such hits as Frenesi, Star Dust and Summit Ridge Drive. A sometimes irascible perfectionist who had eight wives (including Lana Turner and Ava Gardner), he had little patience for the music business, which he quit for good...
...resident outsider, he directed the terrific aerial epic Hell's Angels and produced two films that defined their genres for decades: the newspaper comedy The Front Page and the gangster saga Scarface. When he wasn't flying planes, and crashing them, he was wooing glamour gals Katharine Hepburn and Ava Gardner. Best of all, Hughes was a full-time eccentric who finally achieved a madness as bizarre as it was picturesque...
...enlist as a private, and though he never got beyond Camp Devens, the Army furnished him with at least one good war story. He recalls with a grin a fellow New Englander who could never resist a playful jab at the soldier-scholar. "We have two Ha-ava-ad men here," he'd say, "one from Ha-ava-ad College and one from Ha-ava-ad Brewery...
...Ava Chan, a member of the Allston Community Development Corporation, who has been helping the tenants organize, calls the process itself as a sign of goodwill and progress in a community that has long been suspicious of the University...
...have none. I don't want to be the slave of any passion anymore, including women. When I really like someone a whole lot, I've got to marry her or stay friends. One of my best friends was Ava Gardner. And I never attempted to make love with her because I didn't want to do anything to ruin our wonderful friendship...