Word: franked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beverly Hills. Khrushchev was welcomed by President Eric Johnston of the Motion Pictures Association, who had visited Khrushchev in Russia, and by 20th Century-Fox President Spyros Skouras. The Premier sat down for lunch between them. Mrs. Khrushchev, carrying a bouquet of bird-of-paradise flowers, sat beside Frank Sinatra, opposite Bob Hope and David Niven. Before them stretched a glittering panorama of jewels, dyed hair and suntans of a Hollywood movie colony so complete that even Eddie. Liz and Debbie were in the same room. Greek-born Spyros Skouras and Khrushchev got into a bumbling, emotional, unscheduled debate about...
Reflected Heat. The Khrushchevs were led off after lunch to watch the shooting of Can-Can. Their hosts: Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine. Shirley had barely started the welcome speech she had learned in Russian before she became annoyed by the noises of the scene shifters. She said to them: "Could you do this later because this is awfully important to me?" And she said to Khrushchev & Co.: "I do hope you'll enjoy these parts of our picture Can-Can because we very much enjoy the Soviet artists you have sent to this country." After Frank introduced...
...seldom been off. As an "innocently brazen" moppet of seven years, she projected exclusively toward "the men and boys." At eleven, she was being flirtatious with vaudeville hoofers, and at 17, for the first and only time, Mae married. She told the lucky man, a vaudevillian named Frank Wallace, that she was not in love. "It's just this physical thing," explained Mae. "You don't move my finer instincts." Domestic life proved a bore, and Mae soon sent her husband off on a solo tour...
...second-place Cleveland Indians faded in the American League pennant race, terrible-tempered General Manager Frank Lane complained that Manager Joe Gordon would need a miracle to win, added that he was eying four or five other men for the job next year. Gordon promptly quit, and an offer promptly went out to the leading candidate on Lane's little list: the terrible-tempered Leo Durocher, former manager of the Dodgers and Giants, who quit his $65,000-a-year job with NBC-TV with the announced intention of returning to baseball...
...four characters in The Glass Menagerie, the other of Tennessee Williams' two great plays, captured only some of the work's beautiful subtlety and fragility. Once again, the best job was turned in by Frank Langella as the son Tom. The Playhouse then resurrected the famous 1844 play The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved, "a moral domestic drama by W. H. Smith and a Gentleman." Marilyn Miller staged the work in period costume and old-school ham acting style; and the result was unflaggingly hilarious. Booing, hissing, and the throwing of peanuts were actively encouraged. A pianist furnished background accompaniment...