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NAKED AT THE FEAST by Lynn Haney Dodd, Mead; 338 pages...
Josephine Baker parlayed that talent into a strange career. As Biographer Lynn Haney recounts, Baker badgered her way onto Broadway when she was 16, but it was in Paris three years later that she found true recognition. As in a '30s melodrama, Baker's professional life roared on while the person behind the spangles was racked with insecurity. The crucial difference between Baker and her Hollywood contemporaries was that the star was black, and consequently was barred from many roles in her native land...
West Yard: Robert S. Foster, William M. Haney III, Madison K. Karlock and Steven W. Hawkins...
...couturiers.) The show's structure is clumsy. In addition to the narration and flashbacks within flashbacks, Rice introduces an irrelevant character just to plug his best song (Another Suitcase in Another Hall). That sort of contrivance hasn't been seen in a musical since Carol Haney sang Hernando's Hideaway in The Pajama Game...
Hillenbrand, who was not badly hurt, was far more fortunate than CBS Newsman Haney Howell who, while covering the same demonstration an hour later, was knocked to the ground and kicked by several policemen; he was hospitalized with painful bruises about his spleen. CBS protested directly to President Thieu, noting that the attack did violence to the already fragile image of democracy hi his country. To Hillenbrand, the ugly episode was a telling sign of political jitters hi Saigon. As always, he says, "when the going gets tough for the government, the secret police begin beating on the journalists...