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Mann Act. Dita grew up as an Army brat, moving from base to base. She adored her father, who treated her like a boy, made her learn to ride almost as soon as she could walk. "Every morning at 5:30, the goddam horses were at the back door," she recalls of a stay in the Panama Canal Zone. She was on a raft there once, swimming with her father, when a "goddam crocodile was skulking under the raft." He ordered her to swim for shore anyway...
...marriage to Director Vincente Minnelli, was born into a bizarre fairy tale in which she was destined to be both the princess and the scullery maid. Her life had a careening plot line with glittering characters and fantastic reversals of fortune. At one moment she was a pampered Hollywood brat; at another she was holding together a disintegrating ménage, playing nurse to Judy and Judy's sliding career, hiring servants they could no longer afford...
...girls. One reason is the inevitable boy companion that the ten-year-old could identify with-Batman's Boy Wonder Robin, the Sandman's Sandy, the Shield's Rusty, to name only a few. Even when the ten-year-old identified too closely with that clever brat on paper as a rival, it was good for sales. Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, who has lately turned to writing for the theater and the movies (Carnal Knowledge), was both repelled and drawn to the Boy Wonder. "One need only look at him," Feiffer writes, "to see he could fight better...
...George Meany's intemperate blast at the President's wage and price freeze, a policy that seems remarkably fair and free of favoritism, sounds for all the world like a spoiled brat's demand for instant wish gratification. He obviously means to have his own way, even if it's at everyone else's and the country's expense, and regardless of how any of us may feel about it. If his demands are not met will he throw a tantrum or hold his breath till his face turns blue...
...Your story on George C. Scott [March 22] makes him sound like nothing so much as a spoiled and self-worshiping brat. Why should he be so ornery? It is just his egotism showing...