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...Jokes Bonham Carter: "She immediately told me how to emanate innocence from my solar plexus. I had a disadvantage because I'm a brunet." Cartland admits that "at first I was a little worried because all my heroines are blond." Her fears were soon banished by Bonham Carter's breathless portrayal of Serena, the young beauty who is whisked away by the evil Marquis of Vulcan, played by Marcus Gilbert. Bonham Carter has meatier roles in mind but knows she may have to age a little to get them: "I'm always surprised when I look in a mirror...
...secret that Celebrity Chronicler James Spada has dug up is that Philadelphia-proper, convent-educated Grace Kelly had sex before marriage, apparently a lot. While putting her affairs in order, Spada in this sad, breathless biography writes endlessly about the "duality" of Kelly's personality (fire vs. ice, expression vs. repression), all in a turgid stream of psychobabble. People who want to find out if Grace Kelly was a sensuous woman need only see To Catch a Thief. They will satisfy their curiosity, and Grace will be allowed to rest in peace...
...male costume of the future dreamed up for Vogue -- a bearded figure in an immaculate white jumpsuit wearing a circular antenna as a halo on his head, John the Baptist among the insulators. Everything is streamlined, even objects that are screwed down and cannot move, so that America's breathless rush toward Utopia is clearly signified by things like a 1933 Raymond Loewy metal teardrop desk-mounted pencil sharpener. In the twelve years between the Wall Street Crash and Pearl Harbor, the American imagination seems to have oscillated between two images, the streamline and the breadline -- the former promising relief...
...argued against it. Too negative, they said. A jungle. "Yes, it was a downer," admits Mrs. Reagan. "They didn't want me to get into it." But get into it she did, and even though the press itself is now fretting that it might have gone overboard in its breathless chronicling of the war on drugs, she is holding firm in her conviction that this is a national tragedy...
...that breathless moment, some of basketball's greatest players watched the ball bounce around the rim and it didn't matter how the ball had gotten to the basket--only whether or not it would...