Word: casablanca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, and moved into the house of another woman. So stale and sad a marital caper would normally raise no eyebrows, let alone lead to a book. But Morris' circumstances were rather special. For one thing, the other woman was Morris himself. After undergoing a transsexual operation in Casablanca to shed his manhood and the name James, Morris now lives in Bath, England, under the name Jan Morris, happily experimenting with lipstick, twin sweater sets and pearls...
...Casablanca James Morris seemed one of the least likely people on earth-possibly excepting Joe Namath-who would want to start life anew in a skirt. A brilliant writer, celebrated and comfortably off, he was the apparently happy father of four children. Morris had been an intelligence officer in a crack British cavalry regiment and a glamorous globetrotting correspondent. In 1953, for instance, he climbed 20,000 feet up Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary's group and scooped the world for the Times of London...
Stevens discovered scotch at the Casablanca. Always prone to comfort in any form, he began to favor fits of laughter with acquaintances and morose drunkenness with friends. Dope was worse; it seemed to cost more and made him slightly nauseous...
...Movies. A salute to the American cinema, featuring clips from more than 110 films (Daddy Long Legs, The Mark of Zorro, Casablanca, Hud, From Here to Eternity, The Graduate, The Jazz Singer and more--you ain't seen nothin' yet). This is part one--part two is Monday at 9 p.m. Ch. 5, 8:30 p.m. 2 hours...
...irritates me intensely. It annoys me because I'm not a dilettante. Theater has been my life for the last 20, oh, 28 years. It makes me suddenly realize how very old I am. It was so funny the other evening with some of the freshmen. They were watching Casablanca on television and Ingrid Bergman came on. And most of them didn't seem to have ever heard of her and one of them said 'Oh, Ingrid Bergman. Oh, my father was in love with her.' And I said 'oh my God.' That makes me feel very old indeed...