Word: flagg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crony, Cartoonist Ham Fisher, Flagg has a thorned rose: "He is so keen, so well informed; his wit is sharp and his imaginative humor is boundless-it is incredible that none of all this ever gets into his strip of 'comic stuff' called [Joe] Palooka...
...Author Flagg's roving eye also lights on the Barrymores, "the most self-centered, spoiled, irresponsible leprechauns ever to crawl out of a hollow tree-life would have been much duller without them. Jack and I had a lot in common (possibly the less admirable traits). . . . We were both agreeably astonished that each of us was a friend and admirer of Jeddu Krishnamurti or Krishna...
Sunk to the Eyebrows. Indian mystic Krishna "had been touted ... as an 'untouchable,' so much so that when I walked down Fifth [Avenue] with him he had to beg me to get him into a taxi since the females pestered him so." Flagg's own pestering gets considerably more space in his book. The story of his love life starts in low gear ("How was I to know that beautiful Nellie, voluptuous and sweet to look upon, was physically frigid?"), but soon shifts into high...
...recent years Flagg has feasted his eyes and practiced his art increasingly in Hollywood. Among his sitters: Greta Garbo ("I was immediately sunk; sunk to the eyebrows in adoration of this former Svenska barber shop assistant . . . the two of us paid scant attention to anybody else from that moment until midnight"); Hedy LaMarr ("She would be the only living woman I would forgive for not having full breasts"); and Joan Fontaine (she "has'everything...
...Flagg considers Jane (The Outlaw) Russell "perhaps the last word in sultritude . . . she slipped her arm in mine and said: 'I like you!' 'Yes-and why?' I asked. 'Because you remind me of my grandfather,' she beamed. Period...