Word: gigi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Granada Hills High is important to Scheper for a non-football reason as well. It was there that he met Gigi Railla, his wife of three months. "I was the star football player and she was the star cheerleader," Scheper laughs. Theirs, however, is not the typical high school-sweetheart romance...
...were just really good friends in high school," Gigi says. "The football players and the cheerleaders went to parties together and to the beach together, all in a big group." Adds Paul: We were in a couple of classes together, so I'd go over to Gigi's house to study sometimes...
...gift was the ability to create characters so vital that they seemed to leap from the page: the ebullient Gigi, skipping through the Tuileries; the elegant and doomed Chéri, in love with a woman twice his age; and Lea, archetype of the older woman, wise, but not yet wizened by age and experience. But Colette's greatest invention was Colette, the country girl who conquered Paris and captured life itself...
Minnelli, who directed such films as "Meet Me in St. Louis" (1944), shown Monday night, "Gigi" (1958), and "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" (1962), began his career as a child in the Minnelli Brothers' Tent Show...
MARRIED. Vincente Minnelli, 76, Academy Award-winning director (Gigi, 1958) and father, by a previous marriage to the late Judy Garland, of Entertainer Liza Minnelli; and his longtime companion, Lee Anderson, fiftyish, British-born publicist and Hollywood socialite; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Beverly Hills, Calif...