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From there Paul apparently went on foot to the rue Chabannais, where his car was parked across the street from a bar called Champmesle. The Champmesle is a lesbian bar, where, despite his gender, Paul was a regular customer. The burly 41-year-old bachelor, a former French air-force officer and an amateur pilot, was a big teddy bear who brought flowers for the bar's regulars but otherwise left them alone. Josie, the bartender, knew him well. "He never drank much," she says, leaning on the bar under a garish mural of nude women. "I've known...
...Harvard, however, all proctors have at least a bachelor's degree-more than half of them are from the college-and serve as academic advisors. Many remain proctors for several years...
...Chayefsky heard people mimicking the play's dialogue ("What do you feel like doin' tonight?" "I don't know. What do you feel like doin' tonight?"). The film version won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1955, and Hollywood was soon combing Philco Playhouse for other scripts: The Bachelor Party, The Catered Affair, The Rainmaker and Gore Vidal's The Death of Billy the Kid (filmed as The Left-Handed Gun) and Visit to a Small Planet...
...city gals (Hepburn, Sullavan, Jean Arthur, Rosalind Russell, Dietrich, Ginger Rogers, nearly the whole fabulous constellation of '30s star actresses) would toy with this bumpkin, only to find he had magically restored their emotional virginity. In his private life--which he kept private--Stewart was a responsible grownup, a bachelor until 1949, when he married Gloria McLean. She had two sons from a previous marriage; they had twin daughters...
...Huntington Theatre Company's production of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" evokes emotion far beyond the squeals and sobs that touring companies of "Les Miserables" manufacture eight times a week. "Company," recently revamped from its 1970 original, explores the life of Robert (Davis Gaines), a New York bachelor who contemplates his 35th birthday. Robert is soon visited by his closest friends, five married couples, who show him that maturity represents an assumption of responsibility. The birthday becomes a symbol for the affirmation of Robert's willingness to look beyond himself, to make a commitment to the company that marriage offers...