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Married. Zsa Zsa Gabor, 55, sometime actress and talk-show queen; and Jack Ryan, 48, Los Angeles millionaire who, as head of Mattel Inc.'s research division, supervised the development of the Barbie doll. The couple were wed in a civil ceremony at Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas; he for the second time, she for the sixth. Said the white-gowned Mrs. Ryan: "If this doesn't work, I shoot myself...
...that he could keep bigger boys at bay by making them laugh. In his early teens he was touring Catskills resorts as a stand-up comic and drummer. At 30 he was making $2,500 a week writing Your Show of Shows with his old Catskills pal Comedian Sid Caesar...
...Alec Guinness is rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and doing it cautiously, for his February 1976 television performance with Genevieve Bujold in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The show's sponsor, Hallmark Cards, is still aching from the karate chop rendered unto Winston Churchill by Richard Burton on the eve of his starring role in The Gathering Storm. Shaw wrote that Caesar "bought men with words," but Sir Alec, talking about the play, sounded like a translation from Latin: "Anything that is reasonably civilized is likely to have an underlying wit." Somewhat...
...lives to defend their owners or else, when the owner dies, expiring of a broken heart. In fact, dogs are loving creatures and will do almost anything for a providing owner. It was, after all, Cerberus who guarded the gates of Hades. Mastiffs brought back from England by Julius Caesar became canine mercenaries, as famed in their day as the K-9 Corps of World War II. There are the tales, too, of faithful cats that travel thousands of miles to find their vanished owner, though thousands more prefer to abandon their homes. Cats are by nature haughty creatures, less...
...wife, his elder brother, old associates). The end finds him stripped of everything he once valued except the one thing he found essential-unquestioned, unquestionable authority. It seems a far more terrible punishment than the bloody retributions the old movie code used to insist on applying to Scarface, Little Caesar and their...