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...cowardice. Bobby DiCicco is the eyetalian who wants to open a bagel shop when he gets home. Kelly Ward is the quiet cartoonist who draws pictures when he's not drawing fire. And Robert Carradine is Sam Fuller, a scruffy, fast-talking writer from Brooklyn who lives on cigar smoke instead of oxygen...
...Fuller's hardline anti-Commie stand lost favor after the McCarthy era. For nearly two decades, he has been noisily chomping his ever-present cigar in frustration, desperate to make the war film he always wanted to make, to prove that he had survived the roller-coaster life in Hollywood as well as the battles in Europe...
...rumpled, impulsive Silverman is notoriously clumsy at firing subordinates. Two weeks ago, he sent cigar-chomping Hollywood Lawyer Milton Rudin to Pfeiffer's porticoed house in an exclusive, guarded section of Greenwich, Conn. Rudin reportedly made it clear that Pfeiffer was finished. The following Monday, Silverman called Pfeiffer into his Rockefeller Plaza office and told her that she would have to resign. Yet she apparently left thinking there was still some room for negotiation. Then, when she learned that her resignation had been requested, she turned livid and picked up the phone...
...Said he: "The economy is in trouble, democracy is in trouble and we seem lost at sea without a leader." After the speech, Jordan lingered for a couple of hours with about 100 Urban League members in the Piper's Glen Room at the motel. He smoked a cigar, nibbled on hors d'oeuvres and talked with well-wishers about the civil rights struggles of the past and his hopes for the future. At about midnight, he left with Martha Coleman. Married and divorced four times, she is a supervisor for the local International Harvester Co. plant...
...thought to be dead at birth in Málaga on Oct. 25, 1881. Then his uncle Salvador Ruiz, a celebrated Spanish physician who had delivered the boy, calmly puffed cigar smoke up the baby's nose, provoking howls of protest. Thus did Picasso embark on 91 years of rugged life...