Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rang the doorbell of the five-bedroom, Spanish-style Beverly Hills house, I braced myself for ghosts. The previous owner, Clifton Webb, reputedly never really moved out. Then, too, I half expected the ghost of Hedda Hopper to come at me with a hatpin. Instead I was greeted by Hedda's spiritual [as it were] successor, Joyce Haber, Hollywood's new No. 1 voyeur. I was ushered past an epoxy statue by Frank Gallo of a naked girl [Joyce likes to strip people naked) and a Tony Curtis box made especially for Joyce and featuring an old fashioned...
...spared a role in history almost completely. According to the Chinese, this is a blessed state to be in. But the Irish chafed under it. They cursed the English and they cursed themselves-to the point where cursing itself became a distinct Irish art form. "May she marry a ghost and bear him a kitten, and may the High King of Glory permit her to get the mange" is a comparatively mild one. The old Gaelic word for satire (der) also meant a spell that caused facial disfigurement and even death. To this day, the Irish play their satire...
...Hope Lange was named Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series for her role in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, another series dropped by NBC. This one was rescued by ABC for next fall...
...ultimate strength of Henry V has to rest with the man who plays the king. It is not an enviable task, for the role will always be haunted with the ghost of Olivier and the undying memory of that shivering heraldic cry, "God for Harry! England and Saint George!" Len Cariou lacks that hortatory magic of voice and presence. He is manly, straightforward and appealing, someone whom troops would always follow into the next town but scarcely into that cauldron of death and glory which is what Shakespeare meant by immortalizing Agincourt on St. Crispin...
...returned in the form of a little girl. In James' creative world, "little boys died. It was safer to be a little girl. They usually endured"-as in The Turn of the Screw (1898), possibly the best short story about children in English, certainly the best modern ghost story...