Word: layla
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...When Layla Cable finally coaxed the Japanese magnolia on the border of her property to grow about ten years ago, she discovered that she was terribly allergic to the flowers...
...Layla Cable says she feels a similar nagging regret of a missed opportunity at friendship, particularly after hearing poignant anecdotes from Jenkins’ friends at the Monday night service...
...have been pinned on George's increasing assertiveness as a songwriter and increasing inability to get along with Paul. George was the colorless Beatle, the dubious target of allegations of plagiarism, the man whose wife so cruelly inspired his lovestruck best friend Eric Clapton to write “Layla.” (And when the couple divorced and Clapton married Patti Harrison, who could not help but feel that the better man had finally...
...more unexplored agonies of celebrity life is the sheer repetitiveness of it all. Eric Clapton has to keep playing Layla; Julia Roberts has to keep smiling. And author DAVID SEDARIS has to keep singing the Oscar Mayer wiener song in the voice of Billie Holiday. (He did it on air once and has never lived it down.) So when Sedaris, the only person to rise to prominence by recounting on the radio his experiences as an elf at Macy's, took to the road to promote his fifth book, Me Talk Pretty One Day, he started charging. That...
Sometimes names are changed to protect the innocent, and sometimes names are changed just enough to ensure you know exactly who the "innocent" are. Following the rich tradition that flows from Charles Foster Kane to Layla, RUSSELL CROWE, in his guise as rock star, has written a song that may say everything, or nothing, about his relationship with Proof of Life co-star Meg Ryan. Wendy, written for Crowe's band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, contains the lyrics, "Wendy's got a little boy/Someone to keep in mind for the future/She's got no husband who cares...