Word: chauffeur
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...gave up a $500,000 annual income as an influential Washington lawyer ?an insider among insiders?to plead the cause of the poor and downtrodden in Washington's most frustrating Cabinet post, at a salary of $66,000. Yet he enjoys his official chauffeur-driven car, insists on flying cross-country first class, lives in a $182,000 house. And when he watches the Washington Redskins, he sits in the box beside Owner Edward Bennett Williams...
...more unselfish helper was Celeste Albaret, Proust's companion and housekeeper from 1913 until his death in 1922. In her late 50s, when Curtiss met her, Celeste and her husband, Odilon, who had been Proust's chauffeur, were running a dreary, working-class hotel on the Left Bank. Mme. Albaret's memory was a library in itself; she seemed to have cross-filed and indexed everything Proust had done or said. At one point, she told Curtiss, the master had been thrilled by a letter from a "M. Henri Jammes." Jammes -Henry James-had written that...
...greets well-wishers backstage; about 5,000 fans are on her mailing list for concert information; 4,300 requested tickets for this concert. "God bless you," some tell her. "See you next time," she replies. Then she heads back to New Jersey with her nurse, full-time companion and chauffeur...
...very forthright, strong-tempered and English," says Lee Remick about Kay Summersby, World War II chauffeur for Eisenhower. Remick, 42, will play Summersby in Ike, ABC's upcoming six-hour movie. To research the film, ABC relied on, among other sources, Summersby's posthumous memoirs, Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower. "She admittedly fell absolutely in love with him. That part is dealt with in the movie, but mostly through implication," says Remick. As for Ike's feelings about Kay, word is that the movie may well conclude that discretion is the better part...
Likewise, Jay Leno and Fran Drescher as Freed's chauffeur and secretary fall into each other's arms during the rock show after having bickered with each other throughout the whole movie. We are meant to think t hat it's the magic of the moment and they really liked each other anyway, but this is implausible if one attends to their characters, which are wonderful and funny, but not the sort that fall in love. In short, this movie delegates to the viewer the creation of a large portion of the screenplay. I personally was disappointed that I could...