Word: linens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believes Christina Crawford's tales of child abuse in the bestselling Mommie Dearest, the real surprise is that little Christina was not actually done away with by her mommie severest. Now Faye Dunaway will unwrap that dirty linen again: Dunaway plays Joan Crawford in the movie version being shot in Los Angeles for a scheduled September release. The facial resemblance is clearly a casting director's dream. Says Dunaway: "It was scary the first time I saw it." She puts Crawford the Legend before Joan the Mom. Faye's judgment: "I have nothing but admiration...
...region of silence and solitude. Cars may roar to Mammoth or the hot springs, less than ten miles away over the Tioga or Paiute passes. Toward the valley, pack trains and jeeps carry food and linen to the "High Sierra Camps" operated by the Yosemite Valley concessioniers. To the east, boyscouts and campfire girls pound dusty, mile-wide paths to the toilet-equipped camps beneath Mt. Whitney. But in the interior, the quiet is enveloping. A hiker of the trail may see no one for days, and those who visit the glacier lakes speak in whispers...
Elmire reminds the skeptical Orgon to reveal himself before things go too far. McElvain descends the stairs with utmostholy piety; Rodgers leads him on with an ironic smile. Sneering at Orgon's simplicity, McElvain rips off his hairshirt (revealing clean linen underneath) and prepares to go at it. Director Grey Johnson draws out the scene for all it's worth, keeping Orgon (Bill McCann) under the table until Tartuffe has practically consummated the affair. Rodgers, displaying genuine alarm, keeps kicking McCann under the table, unable to believe he could hesitate so long before putting a stop to things. Johnson controls...
According to officials, there were three other fires at the Hilton in addition to the one that Cline admits having started. After the main fire was under control, others broke out in quick succession in a second-floor linen closet, a third-floor service elevator lobby and in a ninth-floor fire hose, which had been cut open, stuffed with paper and ignited. Cline has been charged with setting only the eighth-floor fire but is being quizzed about the others...
...also dons a light brown gabardine or white linen suit in warm weather...