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...years ago, Eliza, who smokes and swears and says it like she feels it, might have seemed like a breath of fresh, frank air, a maternal version of Carrie Bradshaw. But in 2009, as she pants out her lines and flaps about frenetically - like Courteney Cox in Cougar Town, Thurman approaches portraying a 40-something as if she's auditioning for the part of a winded windmill - she just seems clueless. Or like a woman who didn't consider her choices carefully enough, locked herself in a prison of her own device and is now snarling like a caged tiger...
...sunny personality, frequently telling his viewers, "I love you and give ya a big kiss." They returned the affection. Lunch with Soupy Sales soon gained converts of all ages and went national in 1959. For a brief spell in the early '60s, he was a prime-time star; Frank Sinatra showed up to get a pie in the face. (See a pictorial history of stand-up comedy...
...United States," and Black Tooth, "the nicest dog in the United States." Or he would go to the back door and greet some (usually unseen) visitor. One was his "girlfriend" Peaches - represented visually by Sales in a blond wig and baggy dress and vocally by either Adler or Frank Nastasi, who did the puppeteering from the mid-'60s on - with whom he'd engage in buckshot banter. (Peaches: "Will you always adore me?" Sales: "Yes!" Peaches: "Then let's run off and get married tonight!" Sales: "I can't." Peaches: "Why not?" Sales: "I've got a date.") (See TIME...
...They’re not going to give you any license in Cambridge,” said Frank Curreri, the founder of Entertainment Tours...
...Kirwan is no yes-woman. She said she believes in frank communication, even if the news may be less than pleasant for its recipients. Even more importantly, Kirwan stressed that it is often incumbent on leaders to acknowledge that they do not know something instead of resorting to silence...