Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turn passed the baton to another Tennessee State runner, Wyomia Tyus, who won in both '64 and '68 to become the first runner, man or woman, to win an Olympic sprint twice. African-American women have also won the past three 100s: Evelyn Ashford in '84, the flamboyant Florence Griffith-Joyner in '88 and Gail Devers...
...murder. White handles this courthouse skirmishing well enough but flounders when she tries to get a sense from her slippery client of what really happened. Although she is middle-aged, and maybe a bit lonely as well, White is too self-possessed to fall for this road-company Andy Griffith. Still, she does begin to think he may be innocent of murder. That impression grows when his girlfriend turns up. She is young and gorgeous, and as empty-headed as a golden retriever pup. Or so it seems, as she backs up her man with a series of contradictory stories...
Fairbanks was 32 and a Broadway light-comedy star when, in 1915, he was signed by the Triangle film company. Its most noted director, D.W. Griffith, was not impressed: "He's got a face like a cantaloupe, and he can't act." Both slurs were accurate. Doug's full-moon face and double chin made him a long shot for movie swoondom; and in closeup his stage-bred gestures looked like cheerleader antics. All he had was it--the gorgeous muscularity and infectious brio that made folks want to pay to see more. His exuberance turned...
...lucky too when Griffith handed him over to the writer-director team of Anita Loos and John Emerson, who established his film character: half Tom Sawyer, half Teddy Roosevelt. They also devised the set pieces that made his name--as in the climax to the delightful The Matrimaniac (1916): his fiance is locked in a hotel room; the preacher is in jail; the police have chased Doug up a telephone pole; so he tightrope-walks on the telephone wires, persuades a lineman to plug in a conference call to the jail and the hotel, and voila, they're married...
...Hollywood's most popular male actor, outranking Charlie Chaplin; the top female was Mary Pickford, the cagey gamin called America's Sweetheart. A year later, the three stars and Griffith started their own company, United Artists. And in 1920 Fairbanks married Pickford. His Majesty the American...