Word: limos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each limo drew up, one heard a brief, collective indrawing of breath as lungs dilated for the big squeal; generally it was followed by a disappointed exhalation, as the couple issuing from the Cadillac turned out to be unrecognizable. Lip gloss, hair spray, three-tone streaks, cocoa-butter tans, insecure Zapata mustaches and wine red crushed velvet tuxedos: the women looked like tennis club matrons and their escorts like croupiers. The teenies had come for Al Pacino, but he was in New York. Prodded by the eupeptic booming of the outside master of ceremonies, they stayed to squeal at Walter...
...love to have it for city driving," quipped Gazzara, who came to the screening decked out in a Capone-style pin-stripe suit, full-length rabbit coat, and half of the extra 20 lbs. he had put on for his role. The fans seemed more interested in the limo than the leading man; after giving Gazzara a polite moment of applause, they quickly crowded round for a close look at the $150,000 mobstermobile...
...Wilbur, I'd never let you go in the water," quipped an elderly wag to Burleycutie Annabella Battistella, alias Fanne Fox, 38. The somewhat dampened Argentine firecracker was in Boston's Pilgrim Theater making her first public appearance since she leaped from Representative Wilbur Mills' limo and took a header into Washington's Tidal Basin. After nursing a couple of shiners in her Arlington, Va., flat (in the same building as the Mills' apartment), Anna returned to the career of burlesque dancer she gave up on Mills' advice a year ago. In no time...
...Limo-Liberal Mayor John Lindsay of New York is enjoying the perks of his job while he still has them. One perquisite is his appearance at the city's annual film festival at Lincoln Center, where he gets to squire those sexy foreign film stars. But why doesn't he get someone to write some new jokes? Ogling Actress Jacqueline Bisset, His Honor trotted out the same saw he used for Catherine Deneuve three years ago: "They don't make pretty girls like that any more. And neither...
...social worker, fondly recalls the night he parked his Royced VW in front of Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner's North Side mansion. When he and his date returned, a crowd had gathered to admire his car. "Nobody," says Troiani, "was paying attention to Hefner's big Mercedes limo...