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...Ladies' Home Journal. No, they are not. But their piercing candor made them memorable young tourists. Mischievous too. Jackie accompanied Lee to a singing lesson in Venice with one of Italy's foremost sopranos, then sat back and urged her sister to sing something from Call Me Madam. Lee now recalls that Jackie played a similar trick on her a decade later. During a 1963 trip to Morocco, while Lee and First Lady Jackie Kennedy were waiting with the King's harem to meet the monarch, Jackie boasted about her sister's lovely singing voice, then...
...without much enterprise (let it not be forgotten that Michael Sarrazin is not the star of this movie), so Henrietta goes out to get the grubstake. This initially involves doing business with a loan shark. The pork-belly deal is delayed, so the shark sells her contract to a madam, who sells it to a couple of Mafia killers, who sell it to some cattle rustlers. As each new situation becomes increasingly preposterous, laughter is supposed to rise in proportion...
...driver buddy (Bill Cosby) who suggests that they party it up that night at a gilt-edged fancy house. Now Poitier is basically a nice family man, but his vacation is coming up and he could use a night on the town. The friends arrange to meet at Madam Zenobia's after their wives have gone to bed. They show up, eye the girls, but are robbed, along with everyone else, when four masked men hit the place. The rest of the movie deals with the contortive lengths Cosby and Poitier go to to retrieve Poitier's wallet...
...Madam Forelady, has the jury reached its verdict?" asked the clerk. It had, replied Sybil Kucharski, dressed in blue jeans and a gray turtleneck sweater. In a firm, assured voice, she answered "Not guilty" eighteen times as the counts, first against Mitchell, then against onetime Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, were read. When the litany exonerating Mitchell was completed, one of his defense attorneys let out a small whoop of joy and tried to embrace his client; the undemonstrative Mitchell shook him off. "You've got the jury system and it always works," he said calmly afterwards. Stans was less...
...china, Allen observed diplomatically that "it says 'Made in Germany,' and it was not until the beginning of the 20th century that such a marking appeared." Another Parke Bernet diplomat, after examining a ring that its owner believed to be antique amber, said, "I'm sorry, madam, but it's plastic." He gently added: "Early plastic...