Word: fryer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it had purchased the rights to Myra. Trouble was, Fox was at a loss to cast the transsexual title role. Elizabeth Taylor, Angela Lansbury and Anne Bancroft were considered. Fox even tested eight real transvestites, but decided that an uncloseted queen just wouldn't do. Then Producer Robert Fryer (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) had an inspiration. "If a man were going to become a woman, he would want to become the most beautiful woman in the world. He would become Raquel Welch...
...that it would not detract from her wonderwoman image, Raquel Welch prepared for her most ambitious role-as Myra Breckinridge, the man who changed his sex to turn temptress, in 20th Century-Fox's version of Gore Vidal's novel. At the announcement press conference, Producer Robert Fryer (The Boston Strangler, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) said that to the best of his knowledge only Miss Welch and eight transvestites had tested for the role. "It's a great step forward in my career," said Raquel. "But what will Laugh-In say?" Nothing uncomplimentary-not after...
Right-wing Ike Ikauniks, who shared with Kinasewich last year's award as Harvard's most valuable hockey player, is also gone. So are forwards Bill Fryer, Barry Treadwell, and Billy Lamarche...
...that football coaches say) as he watched the likes of Bill Grana, Jeff Pochop, Bill Southmayd and Mike Bassett pass through. "Slurp," went hockey coach Cooney Weiland as he observed one of the most remarkable freshman teams ever--Gene Kinasewich, Ike Ikauniks, Bill Lamarche, Barry Treadwell, Bill Fryer, and Mike Patterson, among others...
...retailers' share has steadily increased to a record high of 24.90. Cattlemen blame this disparity on what they angrily call "supermarket barons." In fact, supermarkets buy in such large volume that they are practically able to name their own price for beef on the hoof. Says John Fryer, research director of the 75,000-member meat packers' union: "If the A. & P. comes to Swift and says, 'We want a million pounds of wieners at 100 a pound' and Swift says 'No,' then A. & P. takes its order elsewhere." Such critics insist that...