Word: gambler
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DIED. Isabel Bigley, 80, Bronx-born stage and TV actress best known for creating the role of Sarah Brown, the prim missionary who falls in love with gambler Sky Masterson and sings of her passion in the signature tune If I Were a Bell ("If I were a bell, I'd be ringing ... if I were a lamp, I'd light"), in the 1950 Broadway hit Guys and Dolls; in Los Angeles. Undeterred by a rehearsal during which fiery composer Frank Loesser, underwhelmed by her rendition of Bell, slapped her in the face, Bigley won a Tony Award...
...fears turned out to be groundless. The one emotion everyone showed was happiness to see me alive, maimed or not. But two exchanges stood out. My sister surprised me with a gift: a 1900 silver dollar our gambler father had won in Las Vegas and given to her in 1956 when she was 8 years...
...slump ... who is hired by ad exec Whitney (Bridget Moynahan) ... who befriends recent widow Laura (Hope Davis) ... who hires as her nanny mystery girl Mae (Erika Christensen) ... who attracts the attention of cop Carlos (Jay Hernandez, above, with Christensen) ... who forms an alliance with Damian (Dorian Missick), a gambler struggling to go straight. It's a drama of chance with enough charm to roll the dice...
...Sunday I will be in an airport lobby awaiting a flight to London. Three weeks later I’ll be back on campus, joined by classmates similarly disappointed that summer is over yet still eager to continue their hunt for experience and meaning. Like a compulsive gambler out of cash, we’ll wish we had one more chip to play, convinced our next move will be the one that hits the jackpot. Never complacent, we cannot concede victory, and so we look, indefatigably, for the next bus or plane out of town, chasing some existential moment...
...God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” from a warning of divine punishment for sinners to an embarrassed admission of guilt. Cash isn’t the righteous prophet delivering the title message; he’s the “rambler, the gambler, the back-slider” he seems to be addressing. He’s neither as strong nor as sacred as he might claim. However, Cash’s denial of his fraility changes into an outright confession during “If You Could Read My Mind...