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...personal story that I thought needed to be told but when I read all the history and got a peek at the inner workings of Washington and the period of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations, the story became even more compelling and worth telling - even if she hadn't been...
...just one of the more skin-crawling scenes in The Little Dog Laughed, a play by Douglas Carter Beane that wouldn't be worth talking about if it hadn't received mostly rave reviews when it opened off-Broadway last winter, hyping it enough to effect a Broadway transfer this fall. New York theater critics are so starved for something besides musicals to talk about on Broadway that they tend to overrate trifles like this. But The Little Dog Laughed is worse than a trifle; it's an embarrassment...
...Brooks made her own happy ending, before she died in Rochester in 1985, at 78. She had cultivated her legend, finding new adherents who treated her with the kind of awe she hadn't been granted in decades, and then only in bedrooms. But I'll give Lulu-Louise a tragic-happy ending. At the climax of the 1930 Prix de beaut?, she is a movie star sitting in a screening room about to watch the rushes of her big song. (It's the sad, teasing "Je n'ai qu'un Amour c'est Toi," and, in another 100th birthday...
...suspect, having little control over the booze she loved. Augusto Genina, who directed her in Prix de beaut?, wrote in his memoirs that she drank all day and night and had to be carried on to the set. "She would have been the ultimate actress," he declared, "if it hadn't been for the alcohol...
...Prof. Al-Rawi would likely have left, too, if it hadn't been for his interest in the AMS - and his commitment to the professors' union. "If we all leave, we condemn the next generation of Iraqis to backwardness," he told me. "Without an intelligentsia, our society will retreat to the Middle Ages...