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...share of United Artists (the company formed by Mary, Doug, Charlie and D.W. Griffith) without giving her first refusal. Told recently that Charlie had mellowed, Mary was unforgiving. "That's all very well," said America's sweetheart, "but he's still a son of a bitch...
...surely was by the Harlows and Garlands and later, the Marilyns: the movie queens and bitch goddesses, stars who could be all things to all men, who could, via screen, be injected into the hearts of America, and via fantasy, enter every bed in America. Stars, yes, a race apart from you and me. If they could accept glory as a given of the starlet role, then they could build it into the identity: They could believe their parts; they could believe themselves exceptions to the truth that their movies were but all promises; they could grow so used...
...after being cared for by Margo, reveals herself to be ruthlessly ambitious. It is a difficult role, calling for a complete yet convincing character change. Shotwell captures the look and manner of a naive country girl, and then with an adept change of expression emerges as a four-star bitch...
...Governor DeWitt Clinton, a nature lover and amateur scientist, who tramped the route, figured out the financing, and after years of evangelical effort persuaded a skeptical legislature to authorize construction. In the process, he probably forfeited his hopes for the presidency. "Clinton, the federal son of a bitch/ Taxes our dollars to build him a ditch," ran one barroom refrain. The canal was variously dubbed "Clinton's Folly," "the Governor's Gutter" and "that damfool dig." Yet it was an immediate success, opening new cities and industries with every section, returning in tolls and levies its $7 million...
...upcoming training camp. This, too, is revised from year to year, though it always bears the Shula stamp of relentless organization. Last year many of the days were broken down into ten-minute periods for jogging, machine work and other exercises. Many Dolphin veterans, as Shula himself admits, "bitch and moan" about the regimentation. "But they always do what we ask." Last year Shula asked for a second Super Bowl win. This year he will be requesting a third...