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...matter the situation, the fact is that that same day was just another ordinary day in the suburban Detroit home of Isiah Thomas. No engraved invitation came. The next day, he probably read about America's Olympic selections in the newspaper: Jordan, Magic Johnson, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, Larry Bird. No Isiah Thomas...
Katharine Hepburn is an odd bird. Hemorrhaging after an eye operation, she yells to her chauffeur, "David, take off your shoes and socks and your pants -- and get into the tub and try to get the blood out of the stuff I throw in there." With her lover Howard Hughes, two of the skinniest eccentrics of our time, she dives naked off the wing of his seaplane. In a chapter about another beau, the agent Leland Hayward, Hepburn talks about living in Los Angeles' Coldwater Canyon, living in Benedict Canyon, finding a snake in her living room, buying real estate...
...reflects its author's personality perfectly; it even replicates the tremor in her voice with dashes and sentence fragments. An odd bird Hepburn be, but then so is Rose Sayer pouring gin over the side of the African Queen. And Jo March sliding down a banister. And Susan Vance singing to a leopard. And incredible Tracy Lord -- lighted from above, in a George Cukor close-up, dressed by Adrian, and kissed by Jimmy Stewart in the moonlight. For lovers of film, it's very hard for the artist who made these women...
...Litt wasn't the only first-year enjoying the sights of the early-morning Yard. "We left New York at 3:30 a.m.," said Ellen C. Reilly '95, another early bird, as she unloaded her car in front of Grays Hall at 7:30 a.m. "It's my parents, not me. They wanted to beat the traffic...
...just the right tone in which to tell these tales of burdened hearts and spirits that, against all odds and expectations, refuse to * be broken. You can hear House of Hope pouring out of the car radio this summer as Thelma and Louise barrel along in their T-Bird convertible into the mythical heart of American pop culture. When they stop to refuel, they'll find Childs right there. Outlaws of the heart, all of them...