Word: chumming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...margin of Nichols' auto biography. If he is indeed breaking camp, his move is Yossarianic in its scope. Nichols was the original enthusiast of urbane Waughfare. In the '60s he compiled an unbroken string of Broadway smashes. He was a certified Beautiful Person, intimate of Lenny and Jackie, chum of Gloria Steinem, an original backer of Arthur, the slipped discotheque. Twice married, once divorced, once separated, he was the most eligible married male in Manhattan. His upper West Side triplex was decorated by Billy Baldwin. His Rolls waited obediently at the curb while he visited his fellow greats. His corporation...
While they wait for the others to arrive, a hitch develops in the evening's party plans. Alan, a straight friend from Michael's college days, calls up and insists on coming over. Alan does not know that his old school chum is a homosexual, and Michael does not particularly want Alan to be confronted with this piece of news now. (As he says, "Alan looks down on people in the theatre -so what you think he'll feel about this freak show I've got booked for dinner...
...closing time at the Ruby Bar in Pigalle, but Roger Delfau, 32, and his chum, Rene Corda, 26, were far from sated. They persuaded the tall brunette barmaid, Marie-Madeleine Irbah, 25, to join them for another drink. An hour later Marie-Madeleine found herself facing a pistol in a Citroen with reclining seats, parked in a lonely forest. At daybreak, she went to the police and reported that she had been raped repeatedly. The two men were convicted, fined $1,000 in damages, and sentenced to three years in prison...
...Farrow at the opening of Opium, a one-man show starring Yul Brynner's son Roc. Mia doesn't get around much any more, for increasingly obvious reasons. No one seems to know exactly when she'll have Andre Previn's twins-but Childhood Chum Liza Minnelli, who has been named godmother for the pair, is planning to race the storks to London...