Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first play, Marian Seldes knew she would become an actress. Recently, she became an author as well. The Bright Lights: A Theatrical Life is not the autobiography of a famous person, because "I'm not famous." Nor is it a book of Theatrical Celebrities gossip, though memories of Tallulah Bankhead and Laurence Olivier fill the pages. Instead, The Bright Lights interweaves anecdotes with analysis to describe "a lifetime of work in the theatre." The work ranges from the triumph of Equus, which offered the change to act with three stars--Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Perkins, and Richard Burton--and the tragedy...
...Ethel was not without her own set of idiosyncracies. By the time she had reached the top of her profession, she is said to have been so imperious that when she once entered a party and found Tallulah Bankhead doing Ethel Barrymore impersonations, she hauled off and slapped the other woman across the face...
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Everywhere, the ghettos have the highest rates of crime. Especially vulnerable are sprawling public housing complexes like Atlanta's Bankhead Courts, where 90% or more of the 2,900 families are on welfare and are headed by females. Some of the families have been burglarized half a dozen times or more in the past year. Welfare checks