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...from 1929, before the avalanche begins, brusquely dismisses Rin-Tin-Tin. The introduction of talking pictures, argues one Warner executive, has turned their canine star into just another unemployed hound, "very obviously, of course, because dogs don't talk." To the regret of Jack Warner, who ran the studios (Brother Harry was president and Albert was treasurer), his other stars could talk and often did. When Davis objects to being cast in something called Hollywood Hotel (1937), her withering look can be seen between her lines to him: "I have worked very hard to become known as a dramatic actress...
...strongest characters in the book is Jack Warner himself. A brilliant egomaniac, he became angry when top producers received all the credit for Warner pictures, and he had a habit of suspending uncooperative stars. Finally, during World War II, Brother Harry had to step in. "You must bear in mind," he wrote, "that everyone is preaching liberty and freedom and the actors are getting to believe it. When the war is over and all the actors and help have come back, you can at that time suspend anyone you want.'' --By Gerald Clarke
Grand Boulevard now houses 54,000 people, almost all of them black and poor. Most are in high-rise projects on the western edge of the neighborhood. A four-year-old living on the dismal eleventh floor of one such building recently set fire to his brother's bed. "He wanted to move," his mother explains, "and he thought that if he burned the place down, we'd move." The fire was put out quickly; there is no money to move...
...Rice's brother Randy said David had been influenced by right-wing pamphlets handed out on the street in downtown Seattle. In fact, the lush and rainy metropolis has recently seen more than its share of the most virulent sort of hatemongering: while charges were being prepared against Rice, a Seattle jury found ten members of the vicious neo-Nazi group known as the Order guilty of racketeering after a trial in which they were accused of murder and 60 other crimes...
Viscount Althorp, brother of the Princess of Wales, says, "She's got a big, fat bottom." Her grandmother put on earplugs when she sang. Hardly the way to treat a lady. Unless she happens to be Lady (Helen) Teresa Margaret Manners, 23, daughter of Charles John Robert Manners, the tenth Duke of Rutland, and lead singer of the British aristo-rock band, the Business Connection. Despite the group's white-collar name, Lady Teresa's connections are strictly blue blood. Her father owns Belvoir Castle, one of Britain's most imposing homes; her 15-piece band includes the Marquess...