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...then, cigars were exploding in popularity around the world. The U.S. consumed some 300 million cigars by the mid-19th century, and many Cuban cigar-makers migrated to nearby Florida, where Tampa became known as "Cigar City" by the early 20th century. "If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go," Mark Twain declared. Though the boom was partly lit by the cigar's affordability, they soon become a must-have accessory for debonair gentlemen - men like King Edward VII, who, upon assuming the British throne in 1901, famously announced a break with the smoke-free policies...
...Miss Suzy had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bellMiss Suzy went to heaven, the steamboat went toHello operator, please give me number nineIf you disconnect me, I'll cut off yourBehind the 'frigerator...
...Critics of the Church hierarchy see such pronouncements as proof of Catholicism's unhealthy "obsession" with sexual matters. In his book Sex and Heaven, Catholic writer John Portmann argues that the Vatican has made having "correct sex" the singular virtue for achieving salvation. In just the past month, the Vatican has announced its opposition to a United Nations proposal to protect gays from being criminalized and punished by governments for their orientation, and released a doctrinal office document reinforcing the Church's opposition to assisted fertility and stem cell research...
...final film and the project that led him to begin an affair with star Ingrid Bergman: "The making of Fleming's last picture, Joan of Arc, becomes one of those behind-the-scenes sagas far more fascinating than the finished film, like the productions of Cleopatra, Apocalypse Now or Heaven's Gate. It would span a decade and a half of creative flirtations, turbulent love affairs, and discordant ambitions ... Even its presentation of Ingrid Bergman as an apple-cheeked warrior-saint - the ultimate tomboy heroine - backfired shortly after the film's release, when the American public condemned her for deserting...
...godmother," Kay Thompson, whose 1940s nightclub show she pays tribute to in the second act. When she closed the show with "New York, New York" and followed up with an encore of her mother's sentimental holiday number, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," they died and went to heaven...