Word: ellen
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...PARTING OF ELLEN AND ANNE...
...mining towns, the scarcity of women helped bordellos flourish, but "Butte boasted of having the prettiest women of any red-light district, and it was true," Charlie Chaplin noted in his autobiography. Cops looked the other way. "It kept the miners occupied," says Ellen Baumler of the Montana Historical Society. "The women paid money that went right into city coffers"--until 1982, when a new, reform-minded sheriff closed the Dumas, the last of its kind. The mines closed a year later, and Butte was changed forever...
...warm and nurturing. It's as if she honed her routine by doing it for her mother and a thousand doting aunts. One of the reasons comedians make us laugh is that they see the world differently from us. They're ridiculously paranoid or filthy minded or clumsy. But Ellen is very warmly embraced by loads of folks. And as she has become more loved, she has become less lovable...
...humor resources. And perhaps it's better to be happy and a hero than to be funny. But it doesn't augur well for her new comedy-variety show, scheduled to air on CBS in November, which she, worryingly, describes as an old-fashioned comedy show. Please, Ellen, no hugs...
...shoes are eloquent, it's chilling, it's tremendously sad to reflect upon what these people could have done, where they could have walked. The notion of people's shoes some how reflecting their lives and their path is very powerful, and there are way too many of them." -Ellen Freudenheim, cofounder and director of Silent March...