Word: loy
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...Hollywood, Joseph Gotten, Gregory Peck, Fred Astaire, Carole Lombard, Joan Fontaine and Myrna Loy advanced with Selznick's help. From abroad came Ingrid Bergman. But far and away, Selznick's most-discussed discovery was actually not his but his brother Myron's. In 1938 G.W.T.W. had gone into production with the hunt for an actress to play Scarlett O'Hara still in full cry.* While the old sets on Selznick's 40-acre lot in Culver City, Calif., were being fired and thus providing the climactic scene of the burning of Atlanta, Myron emerged through...
...Alan Jay Lerner. Carol Channing was there in a white stovepipe hat two feet high and an enormous pair of wrap-around sunglasses that would embarrass a Greyhound bus driver. I learned later that President Kennedy's sisters Pat and Jean were there, Anita Loos, Walter Wanger, Myrna Loy, Adolph Green, and Elizabeth Taylor's mother and father. Some of the other women there were really risque in those new gowns that show so much...
...hunches are right, I cannot imagine anyone who has read this far shelling out $3.60 to view such incredible denounment. Especially since you now know who did it. Charade, beyond doubt, is just another futile Hollywood attempt to reproduce a giddy thriller of the William Powell-Myrna Loy-Asta Thin Man vintage...
...anti-Buddhist drive. But the Buddhists managed to spirit out of the building the receptacle holding Quang Due's ashes. "The ashes are holy," said one monk. "We would give 15 lives to defend them." Two other monks escaped over the back wall of Xa Loi (pronounced sah loy) into the grounds of the adjoining U.S. Aid Mission, where they were given temporary sanctuary...
...wicked old father. Then father appears-and Christy Mahon, the golden-tongued playboy of the western world, crumples into a cringing figure of contempt before all his fine new friends. But whisht! Christy-boy gets himself up, chases his old da outside, and with a whack of a loy, lays...