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...Heston) and is always right in his intuitions of guilt. The other characters in the film are marvelous: Janet Leigh as Heston's hopelessly passive young wife, Zsa Zsa Gabor as the owner of a strip joint, Joseph Cotten as a detective, but best of all, Marlene Dietrich as madam, Welles's former lover...
...mashed potatoes when she sat down to lunch in a Manhattan restaurant with her husband of 33 years, Writer Garson Kanin. The result? A case of ptomaine and three days away from Broadway's Mrs. Warren's Profession, where she is currently starring as a middle-aged madam. "It's a wicked thing," allowed Gordon of her illness. "At least my understudy had a chance to do the part...
...didn't start out to reform the world," says Sally Stanford, 72. Just the opposite, in fact. In the '30s and '40s, she was a flamboyant San Francisco madam, running an opulent Nob Hill house (including a 9-ft. Roman bath) that had a clientele to match (the 1945 United Nations conference was one of her busiest seasons). But in 1947 Sally went legit, opened a restaurant in Sausalito and got interested in politics. After four failed races for city council under the name of Marsha Owen, she resumed her nom de nuit in 1972 and swept...
...delivery and blowtorch shows of anger. As Mrs. Warren, Ruth Gordon is badly miscast. Her accent, when speaking of "the high-pocrisy of society," and her brassy manner belong less to the "manager" of a string of high-class brothels in Brussels and Vienna than to a Dodge City madam on the back lot at Universal Pictures...
COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics) was founded on Mother's Day 1973 in San Francisco by ex-hooker and ex-madam Margo St. James, who gathered a group of disenchanted streetwalkers after discovering repeatedly that her background as a prostitute prevented her from finding another job. "The label is what outrages me and has kept me unemployable," St. James says...