Word: dimaggio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since the 1954 arrival of honeymooning Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio had there been such delirium at Tokyo International Airport. A record crowd of more than 4,000 was on hand to greet the returning hero as he flew home from Manila. Press helicopters hovered outside his Tokyo hospital window, while newspapers devoted full-page spreads to him. Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka personally took writing brush in hand to inscribe ten poetic characters. The message: "The air of a heavenly hero will prove awesome through a thousand autumns...
...White e. c.65 f. Colt 45's g. DiMaggio...
William Randolph Hearst was a "son of a bitch." Charlie Chaplin was "so shy" at a whorehouse. Joe DiMaggio was "a washed-up ballplayer" when he married Marilyn Monroe, and he "used to sit home every night watching television " Strong stuff? Too strong for Groucho Marx, who did indeed say those things but wishes that a duck had dropped from the ceiling to stop him. Groucho cited the examples- and more- in court papers filed in his $15 million damage suit against Darien House Inc., publisher of The Marx Bros. Scrapbook ($13.95) for failing to sanitize some of his grouchier...
...ills is dispiriting to contemplate. Some buffoonery and sex offer a welcome change. In Riggs the public (as well as television and the press, which get as tired of depressing news as anyone else) found just what it needed. Not a hero on the order of Rockne or DiMaggio, certainly, but different moments need different kinds of celebrities...
...dependence on sleeping pills. Mailer also offers convincing testimony that the key to this insecurity was the lack of a father, which function Miller fulfilled for a time, but which Clark Gable in his role as her lover cowboy seemed to provide strongest, and filled at other times by DiMaggio and Yves Montand...