Word: gamblers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...model and actress in commercials. Her biggest chance was being cast for a part in The Asphalt Jungle for a couple of weeks before another fringe performer named Marilyn Monroe took it away from her. Three times Holt married and divorced John Sarkesian, Cher's father, a compulsive gambler and later a heroin addict, although Cher did not meet him until she was eleven ("I hated him"). Between and after these marriages there were five others. Poverty, constant changes of address, a short stay in a Catholic nursing home for the needy were all part of Cher...
...that "there's one born every minute." One by one a set of types troupes in to see the quack magician, Subtle, in search of it is they want--money, women, success. Dapper (Stephen Kolzak) is a boring dandy of an accountant who wants to be successful as a gambler; he winds up with a blindfold over his eyes, gingerbread stuffed in his mouth, and a dead mouse in his fist. Drugger (Denis Pelli) is an honest tob acconist who wants his shop to prosper; Pelli stammers and shuffles cringingly enough, but it's a little disturbing to see Jonson...
...Gambler, 4, 8; Don't Look...
...Italy moved De Sica to focus his attention on the plight of the poor. He often found his actors among street people, told unadorned tales of poverty and pain, and by 1965 had won three Academy Awards: for Shoeshine, The Bicycle Thief and Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. A compulsive gambler who lost some $6 million in Europe's casinos, De Sica occasionally lapsed into more commercial ventures (Marriage-Italian Style), but in 1972 he returned to form with another Academy Award winner, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis...
Society's message to this adolescent female seemed horribly clear: a woman could be a worker or a lover, but could neither be both, nor be satisfied with either. For Ptashkina at least, the choice got easier when reduced to essentials. Love being what it is, pure gambler's odds for survival put it out of contention. "I shall arrange it, so as not to depend on love...I shall live," she writes. Love lost out to survival for Hannah Senesch, too, when to love meant "to disrupt my plans, give up my independence...