Word: madam
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...character suffered from Alzheimer's," he reports, "but I made some suggestions, and now I play a man recovering from a stroke." Douglas' influence also extended to casting: "I told Lauren Bacall there was a perfect part for her," he recalls. "When I said she'd play the madam of a whorehouse, she uttered some expletives, then agreed." Now Douglas is embarking on his eighth book, a new movie and an adolescent rite of passage: next week he will be bar mitzvahed for the second time. "In Judaism you can be re-bar mitzvahed at 83," he says...
...Total assets listed by former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss when she declared bankruptcy last week--$200 in clothes, $500 in jewelry...
There was that fine June afternoon that I fell asleep after snagging a front row seat at Madeleine K. Albright's Commencement address (my apologies again, Madam Secretary...
This February she stepped down from her job to work full-time on a biography of her great-great-grandmother, Madam C.J. Walker, a civil rights activist and pioneer in the hair care industry. An expert on Walker, Bundles successfully lobbied the U.S. Postal Service to feature her ancestor on a stamp last year...
...sing alto. For years countertenors were kidded about the presumed implications of their sky-high voices. (Deller is said to have been confronted backstage once by a German fan who asked, "You are eunuch, yes?" to which the singer allegedly replied, "I think perhaps you mean unique, madam.") And in the '50s and '60s, when rumors of homosexuality could still kill a career, many went out of their way to stress their manliness. But times have changed, and Daniels makes no secret of being gay. "It's no big deal," he says, pleasantly but firmly. "I'm very comfortable with...