Word: buxomness
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Died. Sophie Tucker, 79, the "last of the Red-Hot Mamas"; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Buxom, brassy and schmalzy, she toured the whole of show biz, breaking into vaudeville at 20, shimmying her way into Cole Porter's 1938 Broadway hit Leave It to Me and Hollywood's Honky Tonk, but mostly working the cabaret circuit, where for 50 years she made them hum along with Blue Skies, grow misty-eyed with Some of These Days, and roar over her gravelly Nobody Loves a Fat Girl, But Oh How a Fat Girl Can Love! "Red-Hot Mamas...
...Cavett began his New York career in 1959 as a TIME copy boy (a job about which, fortunately for all concerned, he has no jokes). Then he wrote comedy lines for Jack Paar, Groucho Marx, Jack E. Leonard and Jerry Lewis. Typical problem: how should Paar introduce a certain buxom movie star? Cavett's solution: "Here they are, Jayne Mansfield...
...Communists at their own social-welfare game, he was largesse to a fault. La Pira lived alone in a bare room above a clinic and gave away most of his salary. He was equally openhanded with the Florentine treasury, which ultimately cost him the mayoralty job. Fanfani and his buxom, dimpled wife Biancarosa (White Rose) have not only been close friends to La Pira, but have also regarded him as their health and spiritual counselor. They even had one of the Saint's old hats around to wave over the heads of their seven children as a "cure...
...lunch-table debates. He became a leader of the Bloomsbury set of avant-garde writers and painters, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey and E. M. Forster. At a party at the Sitwells, he met Lydia Lopokova, a ballerina of the Diaghilev Russian ballet. She was blonde and buxom; he was frail and stoop-shouldered, with watery blue eyes. She chucked her career to marry him. His only regret in life, said Keynes shortly before his death of a heart attack, was that he had not drunk more champagne...
Liliana, the buxom country lass who desperately wants a career in show business, best represents Fellini. At the beginning of the film, we find her naive, spontaneous, and perhaps overly in love with her audience. But after a big-time producer has signed her for his glamorous revue show, she turns cold, slightly bitchy, and even contemptuous of her public...