Word: madam
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...Play a Simple Melody," or "Simple Melody/Musical Demon," 1914. This was Berlin's first contrapuntal tune: two melodies - one demure, one robust - that are sung consecutively, then one atop the other. (He did it again with "I Wonder Why/You?re Just in Love" for "Call Me Madam"). It was the biggest hit of his first Broadway score, "Watch Your Step," and spawned hit versions that reached #4 and #8. In 1950 the song did a Lazarus, or would have if he?d been a barbershop quartet. This time there were four hits, including Bing and Gary Crosby...
...need to transport somewhere up the road. "They come to us, and we negotiate privately about carrying their goods." It's a no-cash deal, he says. "They pay their bodies to us." Chikoka shrugs at a suggestion that the practice may be unhealthy. "I been away two weeks, madam. I'm human. I'm a man. I have to have...
Chikoka knows his predilection for commercial sex spreads AIDS; he knows his promiscuity could carry the disease home to his wife; he knows people die if they get it. "Yes, HIV is terrible, madam," he says as he crooks a finger toward the businesswoman whose favors he will enjoy that night. "But, madam, sex is natural. Sex is not like beer or smoking. You can stop them. But unless you castrate the men, you can't stop sex--and then we all die anyway...
...lived his own scary story with Fox's loss. To replace Fox, he needed a big-enough star to "legitimately stand on his own" without imitating his well-liked predecessor. He picked a departure, all right--Sheen, lately out of rehab and one of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss's most infamous customers. "I saw it as an opportunity to get back into the fold," says Sheen. It took eight script drafts to introduce deputy mayor Charlie Crawford, a party boy we first see waking up in bed with a flight attendant, late for a press conference. (In an early scenario...
...might dial up old chum IGOR IVANOV--a.k.a. the Russian Foreign Minister--if her 40-person entourage was not allowed off the plane; the Russians acquiesced. Within minutes, the Albright party was browsing in the terminal. Then suddenly the region's most powerful man, the Governor, appeared--to present Madam Secretary with flowers...