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...about 30 patients a day, with ailments that range from a child's simple cough to stomach cancer. Since the clinic opened, it has referred 196 patients to Cabrini, raising the hospital's "bed census" by about 5%. "The idea is working," says Hospital Board Chairman Sister Irma Lunghi. "We're not saying that this is going to save the hospital, or the community either, but it is a start...
Haled into court on charges of "exhibiting indecent images in public," Polnareff appeared fully clothed-wearing tight, cream satin pants with a matching bolero, a curly wig and his inevitable sunglasses. His exchanges with Judge Emile Taillandier produced some of the liveliest courtroom dialogue since Irma La Douce. Samples...
...cancer; in Hollywood. Wilson's bosomy innocence won her a Warner Brothers contract at age 15, and she started a series of forgettable films (Boy Meets Girl, Never Wave at a WAC) that established her stereotype. She attracted a national audience as the lovable dimwit in My Friend Irma, first on radio, then in two movies and finally for two years on television...
...Dory Previn was one of the country's top lyricists, and her collaboration setup seemed ideal. Teamed with her husband, Composer Andre Previn, she had written songs for a dozen films, including Valley of the Dolls, Irma La Douce and Goodbye, Charlie. Two of their songs had won Academy Award nominations. But the collaboration was less than it seemed. Dory's lyrics were good, even sensitive. But, as she explained to TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler, "they weren't my feelings. I was writing from other people's viewpoints. And while I was married to Andre...
...movie moguls (said Hal Wallis: "Without me, she'd be a fading chorus girl instead of a fading star"). Most of all she has researched her roles with a zeal that beggars even the Method. One of the book's highlights recounts Shirley's prepping for Irma, which in part consisted of peeking through a peephole in the bedroom door of a Paris brothel, watching the top performer...