Word: fatso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ernie took it into his head he wanted to act. His face was as homely as a cold baked potato, but he worked hard around summer theaters, and he got a few bits in television. All of a sudden he was in From Here to Eternity-playing Fatso, the sergeant who made chopped herring out of Frank Sinatra. The picture was a smash, and so was Ernie. He got other parts, but nothing really big till a couple of producers came along, name of Hecht and Lancaster, who wanted to do a picture about a fat Italian butcher...
...hobble-de-hoyden Tuesday night romps on NBC-TV's Jack Paar Show, doughty Prattler Elsa Maxwell. 74. has merrily trampled and spiked the foibles, veneers and peculiarities of such vulnerable folk as Elvis Presley, Billionaire J. Paul Getty. Jayne Mansfield, "Fatso" Farouk, Linda Christian and many another moving target. But not until one evening a fortnight ago did the gaily irresponsible Elsa turn her gusty gall on one of the few name-and-I-droppers in the world who, pound for pound, can outgossip and outfeud her-Walter Winchell. The battle between the titans of Babel began when...
...never been called a monkey," chattered she. "But I've often been called a young whale. Of course, I'm just as much a beast as Farouk is, but I'm naturally so, or at least I hope so!" Have her feelings mellowed toward Fatso? "Humph! This man Farouk is no good at all!" ∙∙∙ Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger gallantly suggested that separate but equal "gymnastic and natatorial" facilities be installed in the new Senate Office Building for Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Though barred from using the Senate...
...nickname that placed him somewhere in the waistland between "chubby" and "fatso...
...World War II hitch in the Navy, a stint as scene shifter and bit player at Virginia's Barter Theater. After playing supporting roles-mostly heavies-on TV for two years, he returned to Hollywood in 1951 to act his first bad man in The Mob. As Fatso Judson in From Here to Eternity, he consolidated his role as villain, made his next half-dozen pictures to match his belligerent face. Now Borgnine is anxious to play other non-stereotyped leads like Marty. But he is closing no doors: "I'm an actor," he says...