Word: dom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brother had died in a wild shootout while trying to kidnap hostages from the Marin County courthouse, presumably in order to bargain for Jackson's free dom. Davis had been circumstantially tied to the episode...
...paean to escapism. Listening to it is like reading stream-of-consciousness poetry--surreal and full of images, from a cafe on a black-and -white mosaic Rio sidewalk to a red-dirt hairpin road winding up a jungled hill in Latin America. It makes you think of visiting Dom Pedro II's cracked stucco palace where you can talk to the 150-year old parrots he kept as pets way back in the mid-1800s...
...Great spots cross the sky and anxious kiddie producers in tuxedos pace back and forth and bark orders at underlings who run concentric. The audience, mostly in black ties, looks swell--the oldest-looking bunch of kids in captivity. The tickets have gone for plenty and bottles of Dom Perignon are firing corks here and there around the old molded theater. The orchestra strikes up the overture. A member of the audience shoots up out of his chair, raining champagne from his glass, delighted by the first bar of music. "It's excellent!" he tells the seated. "An excellent score...
...whose names are, as usual in a Pudding Show, very funny: Juana deBoise, Ophelia Heartbeat, Manual Dexterite, Sonya Vabitzsche, Della Tory. It's just that the thousands of little jokes--the troops of mice that are expected to drag the Pudding's great gilded carriage--are less tonight's Dom Perignon than tomorrow's Taylor State. And borrowing! The authors must have been sharing their beds with old Gilligan's Island writers who talk in their sleep...
...kinds of men," coos Mae West. "The kind with muscles and the kind without." Now 83, she is playing her first starring film role in 33 years: a movie star just wed to her sixth spouse. George Hamilton and Ringo Starr play two of her exes, and Dom DeLuise is her hyperactive manager. Titled Sextette, the movie is based on a play written by West, whose own love life is legend. Being a star again seems to have rejuvenated her. "I feel like I'm 20," says Mae. "No, make that more like...