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...Even dropping Wayne out of the equation, the average age of the stars is 51. Which raises the question: is movie star quality a finite resource, like oil, and did Hollywood spend it all in the days of the Duke, the King (Clark Gable) and other charismatic royalty like Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Burt Lancaster, dozens, hundreds of others...
Napolitano does not dress like a cowboy. She is diminutive and feisty. "She's kind of a female Hubert Humphrey, a real happy warrior, only much tougher than Hubert," says Fred DuVal, a prominent Arizona Democratic fund raiser. Napolitano romped in her 2006 re-election campaign over Len Munsil, a religious conservative who campaigned against gay marriage and in favor of a punitive anti-immigration policy, both of which were profoundly out of step with public opinion. Arizona actually voted against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in 2006--and in the two congressional districts where Democrats supplanted Republicans...
...Peter Cowie describes it in his comprehensive and evocative study of Janus in the 240-page book included with Essential Art House, the company had its roots in the early '50s, when Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey started showing old movies - Humphrey Bogart dramas and W. C. Fields comedies - at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. Then Haliday and Harvey had the first of many inspirations, as heralded by a sign on the Brattle facade: "Opening Soon! Foreign Films." With the success of their new program, they moved to New York City and leased the 55th Street Playhouse...
...ease. Nora I. Bartosik ’08 accompanied with fine piano playing.The evening concluded with selections from Bernstein’s musicals. Again the impact of the music was diffused by unnecessary commentary, this time presented in near talk-show format from Jamie Bernstein and BBC veteran Humphrey Burton. The two spoke in between the eight numbers, offering occasional insight into the backgrounds of the pieces, but usually resorting to awkward jokes and forced interplay.Karen J. Adelman ’07 began with “I Can Cook Too” from “On the Town...
Honey. That word describes the tenor of both her voice and her roles. In 12 years as a star at the lion of studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and for decades afterward, June Allyson purred sweet reason to the prime men of her era: Jimmy Stewart (in three movies), Humphrey Bogart (in Battle Circus), William Holden (Executive Suite) and her husband, Dick Powell. Other women might get the showy parts, and the Oscars. Allyson, in her movies, got the wedding ring. And from her fans, she received the Photoplay Magazine citation as 1954's Most Popular Female Star...