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...Girl from Petrovka is a direct descendant of Sally Bowles and Holly Golightly-another kooky waif, whom withdrawn writers find irresistible. Such girls are no better than they should be but-in show biz, anyway-are widely believed to make up with their innocent high spirits what they lack in common sense and stability. In this case, the gamine is played by the ubiquitous Goldie Hawn. The author, whom convention dictates must reluctantly fall for her despite bouts of reformist palaver and exasperation, is played by Hal Holbrook...
...acquired a great many cultural tag lines and thriftily squirreled them away in the back of his mind for future use. Cavett is certainly the only comedian extant who could say, "Where did we get this obsession that exegesis saves? God forgive that pun." Cavett was of course show biz obsessed. He met Carrie Nye McGeoy, his future wife, while acting in a New Haven amateur production. After graduation he hung around Broadway theaters, cadged a job with Jack Paar as a jokesmith, wrote for Johnny Carson and tried his own nightclub act as a stand-up comic...
...Jack and his two much-older sisters. The business thrived, and the family moved to a bigger place. His sister June left home when Nicholson was four to be an Earl Carroll showgirl in Miami. Jack, bright and funny in school, skipped a grade. He made his unofficial show-biz debut at ten on the stage of Roosevelt Grammar School singing Managua Nicaragua...
...show biz world of sport, Jackson wants the record to show that he is a serious citizen, something more than yesterday's mixed-up kid grown up to be today's hero. Success and psychotherapy have helped give him a strong sense of himself as a person as well as an athlete and celebrity. He means to enjoy all the roles available...
...tennis from a defensive base-line game into an aggressive, serve-and-smash attack. Third-ranked U.S. woman player in 1920, she soon started coaching and made Wimbledon champions of Alice Marble, Maureen Connolly and Bobby Riggs. "Teach," as she was nicknamed by one of her finest show-biz pupils, Carole Lombard, was also courtside mentor of Clark Gable, Marlene Dietrich and Groucho Marx...