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...magazine would ask for an interview, she would borrow a friend's house, put her own pictures on the mantel and try to be there before the reporter showed up. When Judy was on tour, the whole brood, which eventually included Liza's half-brother and half-sister Joey and Lorna Luft, had to learn to put on layers and layers of clothing and waddle out of a hotel, leaving behind their luggage and an unpaid bill. "Just remember, I'm Judy Garland," Mama would say, or, "Well, I need a new wardrobe anyway," and the episode would be laughed...
...grown sons, and his brother inhabit a run-down house in London, and seem to be having their share of family squabbles. Enter: The long-absent eldest son, Teddy, now a Doctor of Philosophy in America, and his wife Ruth, Soon Ruth and the two sons, Lenny and Joey, engage in some suggestive conversation culminating in a sensual dance between Ruth and Joey. Then Lenny, matter-of-factly, proposes that Ruth remain in England as the sexual companion of the family, and that she also earn a little money on the side as one of his whores (his occupation...
...Ruth, Lenny wails--almost as if he spoke for the audience: "Is that a proposition? Damn it, was that a proposition or wasn't it?" We demand that everyone fit in a well-known category: The whore, the kindly old man, the pimp, the vain and stupid boxer (Joey)--and Pinter shoots it all out from under us as soon as we think we know...
...Smallwood's time as Premier he brought to the province about 40 industrial projects worth nearly $2 billion. Trouble was, Joey often did not much care where the money came from or how it was spent. He guaranteed loans of $121 million for his crony John Doyle, a Chicago-born industrialist who once jumped bail in the U.S. rather than serve a jail term for violating Security and Exchange Commission regulations. (Joey's answer to criticism of Doyle: "Whoever became a millionaire by teaching Sunday school?") In recent years, Smallwood grew increasingly dogmatic. Once, when a minister rose...
...benefits Joey brought Newfoundland created the beginnings of a modern society-and one that no longer needed him. By last fall Tory Leader Frank Moores, who is now Premier, was able to find a ready audience for his promise to end "government by impulse." Joey, of course, left a large legacy; before giving up office he endowed friends and supporters with judgeships and other appointments and granted yet another government loan to his friend Doyle. In retirement he plans to write "an autobiography or a great history of Newfoundland." Either way, it will undoubtedly be the same book...