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...Fleming's way with talent in The Wizard of Oz: "When [Judy] Garland couldn't stop breaking into giggles at the pseudomenacing advance of [Bert] Lahr's Cowardly Lion, Fleming escorted her off the Yellow Brick Road, said, 'Now darling, this is serious,' slapped her on the cheek, then ordered, 'Now go in there and work.' It must have been one carefully calculated slap from a man with impressive upper-body strength who was also a master of the 'corkscrew punch.' ... Apart from that smack, he stuck to his approach of treating young actors like adults - and the results could...
...like you need some help,” The Stable Boy told Frederick, and in a moment he had slipped his muscled body between Felicity and Roxanna. He chuckled as he slid one arm beneath each of their shoulders and nuzzled Roxanna’s neck with his stubbly cheek. Roxanna felt a wave of icy heat wash over her body...
...Roxanna—the Lord bless and keep her—could not restrain herself. A tear rolled down her flushed cheek as she contemplated her unknown, long-lost paternal guardian...
...face. Her touch was gentle. “Oh my lady,” she whispered. “Forgive me.”Felicity found herself trembling, too. She turned her face away, and Roxanna leaned forward to press her lip against Felicity’s cheek. A penitent kiss, she thought: the kiss of peace. But at the last moment Felicity turned her face and Roxanna’s kiss landed clumsily on Felicity’s mouth.Soft lip brushed against soft lip. Both women froze. And then the kiss went on and deepened. Felicity?...
...Even ordinary civilians are turning hawkish. "We need to tell them that enough is enough," says Sheikh Noor Ahmed, who owns a hotel close to the bombed-out Taj Mahal here in South Mumbai. "Gandhi's days are gone. Gone are the times when we'd turn the other cheek if someone slapped us." (See pictures of Mumbai after the massacre...