Word: boulevarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the cops got all the evidence they needed. Louis Métra parked his car on the fashionable Boulevard Suchet. got out and walked a few feet, then satisfied that he was not being followed, returned to his car for a small package of opium for a nobleman in a nearby apartment. At this point, the cops jumped out of their Buick convertible, caught him with the goods and arrested the onetime foe of Parisian vice for dope peddling...
...Video Theater did nearly as good a job in its version of the 1950 movie success, Sunset Boulevard. Miriam Hopkins had some big ravaged moments as the faded film star who is convinced that her public still clamors to see her on the screen, but James Daly was altogether too wooden as the young man whose mixed motives of pity and greed turn him into a gigolo and, eventually, a corpse. ABC's U.S. Steel Hour offered another TV version of Henri Bernstein's The Thief (Kraft TV Theater did the same play in 1952), with Paul Lukas...
...Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Miriam Hopkins in Sunset Boulevard...
...breakfast for 500 leading Los Angeles Republicans last week, President Eisenhower remarked: "I am going to appear before another audience who are not going to be nearly so friendly." Then he drove out Wilshire Boulevard to address the American Federation of Labor convention, which had just taken a roundhouse swing at his Administration...
...after a spat at a recent party. To celebrate the occasion, they did what any other sensible couple might do-if they were Lana and Lex. Reported Columnist Sidney Skolsky: "Lana and Lex, who just bought sports cars exactly alike, caused a sensation ... as they cruised down Sunset Boulevard side by side in their creamy-white convertibles with black and white upholstery...