Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of myself died with him. I look back and I see a girl. Her name was Bebe Villagra and I admire her and it's nice to watch her in my mind, the beautiful things she did, and how happy she was, and how much of a devil she was. But it's not there...
...heart attack while feasting; in Villefranchesur-Mer. Troisgros's Restaurant des Frères Troisgros in Roanne, 240 miles southeast of Paris, became a shrine for gourmets who came to sample his food and prejudices. "From 35 to 45, women are old," Troisgros once said. "Then the devil takes over and they're beautiful, splendid, maternal, proud ... When I see them my mouth waters...
...performer is Georgina Spelvin, energetic heroine of The Devil in Miss Jones. The movie is a standard little immorality play about a shy girl running graphically amuck in her own hardcore, X-rated fantasies. At last count it had grossed more than $8 million. Spelvin was paid a mere $500 (about $33 per staged orgasm, by one attentive critic's calculation). After making the 1973 movie, she did other similar epics, and by last summer had fetched up in Maine doing straight summer-stock theater...
Meanwhile, The Devil played in Memphis, where Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry Parrish moved to indict everyone he could who was connected with the film. The federal offense charged: conspiracy to transport obscene materials across state lines, which carries a five-year maximum sentence. Parrish located Spelvin in Maine and tried to have her brought to Memphis for trial. Though she had never been in Tennessee, Maine Civil Liberties Union lawyers were unable to fight off Parrish's long-arm grab. So the celebrated porn actress came at last to Memphis. "Well," she said after being arraigned, "the 50th anniversary...
...with the bravado of his fellows, and unable to open himself up to his father or the girl he lacked the courage to marry. At age 25 he has decided to leave the dead-end of village life for the land of air-conditioning and color TV, where "the devil himself holds sway and lust is everywhere indulged in shamelessly." On the eve of his departure, he reviews for the last time his unresolved memories of the life he is leaving and his hopes and dreams of the life to come...