Word: ciro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failure of these hastily-sketched characterizations might be permissable if the central figure, played by William Holden, had any depth or truth in him. But MGM's conception of a youthful engineer who doubles as vice-president in charge of research is more embarrassing than inspiring more Hollywoodish than Ciro's. Everything that the movie does to make Holden the hero produces the opposite reaction. His nuzzling wife (June Allyson) is sickening in her devotion, and his slimy son is repugnant in his Little League uniform...
Songstress Lee has no immediate plans to make another "sound" record like Lover, but she has irons in the fire. She has a contract to work on the score of a new Walt Disney, is opening at Ciro's Hollywood nightclub, and is planning her own TV film series. What with learning the 14 to 20 songs she sings on her twice-a-week CBS radio show (Club 88), it makes a pretty tight schedule. But Peggy says she's "just gardening" on the West Coast. She wants to go to New York, where "the tempo of show...
...little after dawn, somewhere along Los Angeles' Sepulveda Boulevard, Lucille Ball used to meet her husband, Desi Arnaz. He would be going home after a night of leading his orchestra at Ciro's. She would be headed for a day's work at her movie studio. "We would pull off the road and talk for a few minutes," Lucille recalls. Then she adds: "That's a dull way to live, brother...
Their encounter took place in Ciro's, an expensive Sunset Strip night-eyrie. Tone walked in with his wife and her maiden aunt, a Miss Fay Redfield of Cloquet, Minn. Barbara had just returned to town for three personal appearances, two in theaters and one before a federal grand jury which was interested in a dope-peddling murder (she had supplied the suspect's alibi). Franchot stepped to Florabel's table...
...sporting fraternity. It is home to dozens of men who know sports, write sports and talk sports. It is a place which has the atmosphere of a club. As one of its habituees has put it, "I'd rather be standing outside of Toot's starving, than sitting inside Ciro's belching...