Word: gilda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman in the past five years is Julia Sweeney's Pat -- and the joke is that no one knows Pat's sex. The show has all but abandoned nuanced relationship comedy in favor of TV parodies and broad, running characters that are like antic vaudeville acts. Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner used to play sketches in bed together. Now we have Operaman...
JOHN BARRYMORE, the legendarily dipsomaniacal star of this Italian farce, fell ill. A woman, Gilda Varesi, took his place. The New York Times raved about "Miss Varesi's brilliant achievement...
...Gift" at 10 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 12 and Saturday, Nov. 13. Starring Katharine Hepburn: "Sylvia Scarlett" at 4:05 and 7:35 and "Christopher Strong" at 2:30, 6 and 9:25 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 14. Film Noir: "Lady from Shanghai" at 4 and 7:55 and "Gilda" at 5:45 and 9:35 Vamps and Other Lesbians: "Pandora's Box" at 4 and 7:30 p.m., "A Fool There Was" at 6 p.m. and "It" at 9:30 p.m. From Hong Kong: The Films of Tsui Hark: "Once Upon a Time in China...
...classmates. "They never smelled garlic before we came," says Roddick. Her stepfather, who ran the first and only American-style diner in town, died when she was 10 -- a loss that was keener for Anita and her younger brother Bruno than they knew. Eight years later, their mother Gilda confessed the truth: the man they called stepfather was actually their father. Locked in an unhappy marriage, Gilda had conducted a clandestine affair with him for several years, in the process bearing him two children, Anita and Bruno, whom she passed off as her first husband's. She eventually put aside...
...Gilda steered her love child into the teaching profession, but the pull of the '60s was too strong to keep Anita in the schoolroom for long. She spent a year in Paris clipping newspapers for the International Herald Tribune, another year in Geneva working for the United Nations, and then hit what she calls the hippie trail. She boarded a boat for Tahiti, passed through New Hebrides and New Caledonia on her way to Australia, and ended up in Johannesburg (by way of Madagascar and Mauritius). There she ran afoul of the laws of apartheid by going to a jazz...