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Here in Baltimore, the man you describe as having a Napoleonic complex is known as the Wizard of 33rd Street, and that Earl Weaver is [July 23]! Once you catch his "Oriole fever," there's no getting...
Well, poor Frank seemed at odds with director John Badham (Saturday Night Fever) from the beginning--"What do you need blood and gore for? You've got me. What do you need other actors for?" But he was overruled, and as technicians plastered the sets with spider webs, large rodents and decaying corpses, Langella retired to his dressing room with his Barry Manilow and Kiss records "to put me in the mood for the love scenes...
...salt water. Such substances are considered pharmacologically inert, incapable of eliciting a response when prescribed in reasonable quantities. Yet studies have repeatedly shown that placebos help as many as 30% or 40% of patients with real enough ills, including postoperative pain, migraines, coughs, seasickness, arthritis, ulcers, hypertension, hay fever, even warts...
...Cabin Fever. July...
Ultimately, this is less the biography of people than the fever chart of an ideal. The Bloomsberries aspired to a spiritual bohemianism that would throw off Victorian customs and morals. They shaded 19th century liberalism into a reformers' zeal for the good, the beautiful and the outspoken. In literature they allied themselves with the experimental; in art they coined the term post-impressionist and introduced the English public to Cezanne, Van Gogh, Matisse and Picasso...