Word: limos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aside from tales for the kids, Silverman rarely reads anything but scripts; when he does, his tastes run to popular bestsellers like James Clavell's Shogun. Though he now has the use of a company limo, he and Cathy, an attractive woman with short, dark hair, live in most ways like Middle Americans. Their apartment is furnished like a suburban split-level, and when they buy paintings, they try them out first on the walls, just to make sure that they like the colors. Freddie is vague about the artists' names...
Earlier, he had rented a Memphis movie theater and a roller rink for afterhours amusement. In recent years, his only forays out into the real world were concert tours that were carefully insulated. The routine was usually the same: private plane to private limo to back entrance of hotel to specially cleared elevator to penthouse suite; then, after a while, off to the concert, onto the stage, back to the hotel, then to the airport. Reality never intruded, except when the schedule faltered. In a 1972 documentary, Elvis on Tour, there is a quick scene of Elvis, stranded...
...liven things up as the cars roll through the soap and spray: a hooker stiffs a cab driver for his fare and hides out in the ladies' room; a black evangelist (Richard Pryor) and his entourage splashily tool up to get a bird dropping removed from his customized limo; one of the polishers wins a prize on a radio contest and gets a date with a waitress he has been lusting over; the radical attempts to liberate the contents of the cash register. In short, there is a tad more excitement crammed into this eight-hour period than...
...prepared address the next day. Carter left out a line criticizing political leaders who "ride in limousines too long." Why? Because, Carter explained, "I was kind of embarrassed" about the huge limo that the Secret Service had ordered to convey him to the Wasserman bash. The candidate thereupon directed that he be transported henceforth in regular cars, if security permits...
...Genghis Khan, and Valerie Perrine's 250-lb. mastiff, Thurber. "Genghis was the only pet allowed inside the movie," boasted Zsa Zsa-a fact apparent to everyone once the beast began demonstrating his barking skills. The picture's title character, German shepherd Won Ton Ton, arrived by limo, sporting a rhinestone collar and accompanied by his trainer and a social secretary who will be arranging his promotional tour across the U.S. No autographs, please...