Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hours during two days in April 1964, Manchester taped her recollections at her Georgetown home in Washington. In his foreword he wrote: "Mrs. Kennedy asked but one question before our first taping session. 'Are you just going to put down all the facts, who ate what for breakfast and all that, or are you going to put yourself in the book, too?' I replied that I didn't see how I could very well keep myself out of it. 'Good,' she said emphatically." As a friend of Jackie's told Chicago Daily Newsman Peter...
...through the seven weeks in Philadelphia and Boston, they labored to whip Breakfast at Tiffany's into something palatable, but the talents of Playwrights Nunnally Johnson, Abe Burrows and Edward Albee couldn't save the musical. After the fourth dismal preview in Manhattan, Producer David Merrick, 54, flashed a sort of risus sardonicus and announced: "Rather than subject the drama critics and the theatergoing public to an excruciatingly boring evening, I have decided to close the show. It's my Bay of Pigs." And this particular sow's ear will cost Merrick...
...them from growing up to be "independent, autonomous people." In McCall's, Psychiatrist Eric Berne, author of the bestselling Games People Play, described some of the mean little games people play with Christmas gifts. "Mommies have a game for the younger children called 'Wait 'Til after Breakfast, Dear.' It may or may not develop the children's characters to hold off opening their gifts, but many mothers cannot resist the secret satisfaction that comes from enforcing this rule." Conversely, said Berne, "very small children cross their parents up by being more interested in the wrappings...
...Walton talk on the trans atlantic telephone often. "We are good friends, as corny as that sounds," she explains. Her favorite date is Director Blake Edwards (Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Pink Panther, The Great Race). As Julie says: "People will talk and gossip, and there is nothing you can do about that, so you might just as well go your own sweet way. I don't think anybody goes out of her way to be a scarlet woman, but then there is very little I can do about it if that's what they want...
...visualizes Marshal Budenny "galloping all over Africa,/ And I, of course, galloping right after him," the effect is quite other than intended. The image of the dynamic poetic dramaturge fades, to be replaced by that of another poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, inflamed with patriotic ardor over the breakfast table and dashing off Form! Form! Riflemen Form!-to be published in the Times, please the Queen, and possibly encourage the redcoats...