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...Madam!" Hollings finally exclaimed. "Could I please have a scoop of vanilla? If you please...
Step right over here, madam, and take a look at this rare collection of 100 paintings. Yessir, these are real beauts, all of them done in the inimitable styles of Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani and other early modern masters. Well, to be honest, not quite inimitable styles. The paintings are actually by a clever Hungarian counterfeiter, Elmyr de Hory. Considered the world's premier art forger before his death in 1976, De Hory fooled even museums with his master-fleeces. Eventually De Hory was so famous that he began signing his "fakes," and many of them have found their...
Burt Reynolds plays the beleaguered sheriff who has tolerated the Chicken Ranch, in part because he loves Mona, the madam (Dolly Parton). One has never seen him so glumly tentative in a role. Parton plays Mona as if Mae West had been cryonically preserved but someone didn't quite finish the job of unfreezing her while restoring her to life. What is mostly missing is a sense of comic authority. Parton has interpolated a couple of her plaintive country songs, which do not fit the brassy Broadway banalities of Carol Hall's basic score. On the other hand...
...batches become flagons. He insults studio executives. When Miss Edna, the real-life madam of the Chicken Ranch, proves too proper for the columnists, the author steps in with scattershot malice. He tells Women's Wear Daily that Actress Alexis Smith, star of the national touring company, "can't carry a tune in a goddamn sack." The antics end at a sad and quiet Maryland retreat, "where they teach you not to drink whisky...
DIED. Sally Stanford, 78, flamboyant San Francisco madam who once served as mayor of Sausalito, Calif; in Greenbrae, Calif. Her opulent Nob Hill bordello, which opened in 1942, featured rare antiques and a 9-ft. Roman bath. Stanford, who admitted to 17 arrests and at least five husbands, relocated to Sausalito, becoming first a restaurateur and then a city council member. The subject of a 1978 TV movie, she defended prostitution to the very end, saying: "If we had more of it, we wouldn't have so much trouble...