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Ironically, Goldwyn's own pictures exercise surprisingly small claim upon memory; today they seem impossibly culture-bound. It is, however, a tribute to his blithe showmanship that he put them over (along with such later high-minded successes as The Best Years of Our Lives and Porgy and Bess) at the same time that he was fabricating his own broad comic reputation. Sam Gold wyn was his own greatest production, and one can only be saddened that, at 91, death last week finally included...
...with such Gallic specialties as pate de foie gras, truffles, Mediterranean bass and goat cheese. Among the guests: Playwright Lillian Hellman, Couturiere Pauline Trigere, Journalist Sally Quinn, Author Marya Mannes, New York Times Op-Ed Page Editor Charlotte Curtis, Sculptor Louise Nevelson, Former New York City Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson, and Boston-based Gastronome Julia Child. Sipping her Veuve Clicquot '66 at the end of the ten course, eight wine dinner, Julia gave her verdict: "The whole thing was a great deal of fun." Chef Bocuse smilingly surveyed his table of ladies and gallantly toasted them: "I adore...
...commands at her daily bedside staff meeting like a general preparing for Dday. Jacqueline Kennedy instructed West to run the house as he would "for the chinchiest President ever elected." Why? Because, she confided, "we don't have nearly as much money as you read in the papers." Bess Truman spent long evenings with H.S.T., editing his speeches, discussing his policies, and entering into "nearly every decision the President made...
...first black to sing a major role at the Metropolitan Opera; and William Warfield, 53, barrel-chested baritone of stage, screen (Show Boat) and concert hall; after 21 years of marriage, no children; in Manhattan. Price and Warfield met and married while he was starring as Porgy, she as Bess, in the '50s revival of the George Gershwin opera. The celebrated marriage later fell out of tune, and the two were legally separated...
ELIOT HOUSE DINING HALL. Porgy and Bess...