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...movie version of Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly Last Summer" has Katharine Hepburn quavering a haughty, mad soliloquy about herself and her unwholesome son Sebastian...
...summer long," Hepburn says, "it was Violet and Sebastian! Sebastian and Violet...
...that mediocre Modernism looks even worse than mediocre Victorian. There's less to look at, and what there is, is cheap. But Mies' work was something different. He found a way to make the barest of bare bones sumptuous and even exciting. As Spencer Tracy once said about Katharine Hepburn, "There ain't much meat on her, but what there is, is cherce...
...Lady, they invariably talk about its star-making potential for the young actresses who play Eliza. But what people tend to forget is that it was Rex Harrison, playing Professor Higgins, who won a Tony in 1957 and then an Oscar in 1964, while both Julie Andrews and Audrey Hepburn went home empty-handed from those two ceremonies...
...every actor ever considered for an Oscar shows that winning the golden guy--as opposed to just being nominated for one--increases life expectancy nearly four years. What's the lesson? Being at the top of your game is not merely gratifying, it's healthy. Just ask Katharine Hepburn. The most Oscar-winning actress of all time (four in all) this month celebrated her 94th birthday...