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Sluggers like McGwire--batters who swing for the fences four times a day and damn the torpedoes--are, pardon the iconoclasm, a dime a dozen. Second-rate ballplayers like Dave Kingman, George Foster and Cecil Fielder have put up roughly comparable numbers with exponentially less hoopla...
...Elmore Leonard and Patrick O'Brien. And, yes, the souvenirs: the ax, dripping fake blood, from a production of Macbeth and the sword from the movie El Cid. ("All things I've killed with or been killed with.") A statue of Andrew Jackson, given to him by the director Cecil B. DeMille, recalls another epic role. "Jackson was one of my favorite Presidents," says Heston, grinning. "One mean son of a bitch...
Back in the 1920s, Cecil B. Demille made movies featuring wild pagan bacchanals with partly nude women. It was not immoral to show them, he explained, because he was only telling stories from the Bible. For titillating his audience while piously claiming a higher motive, ole Cecil B. had nothing on Starr. LARRY RAINER Burlington...
Like the city that surrounds it, the Getty Center stretches out in all directions, embracing the sun and the views. It proclaims its importance through its extravagance, joining a long tradition from Cecil B. deMille to Wolfgang Puck that has made Los Angeles famous, if not notorious. Situated on one of LA's most prominent hilltops, it has been warmly embraced by the cultural elite and trend-savvy, the type who would hire people to go to the supermarket to avoid the crowds but relish the opportunity to walk the steep incline in their khakis, Abercrombie blazers and sunglasses, working...
DIED. JOYCE WETHERED, 96, unflappable first lady of the links; in London. Unknown and not yet 19, Wethered easily outshot Cecil Leitch at the English Ladies' championship in 1920. Her textbook swing and unswerving concentration (once, a passing steam locomotive failed to distract her eye from the ball) won her four more of those titles and four British championships...