Word: mama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flying hero, serves his country as an able diplomat, knows after seven novels that he can write, and has won for one of them (The Roots of Heaven) the Prix Goncourt. All this, he maintains in this freewheeling autobiography, might not have happened at all had there not been Mama...
...made his picture debut, two-week-old John Clark Gable was billed by his mama as "a carbon copy" of his late cinema-king father. Purred a radiant Kay Williams Spreckels Gable: "When. I compare Clark's baby pictures with those of John, they are practically identical. He has a crop of dark brown hair just like his father's, and his little fingers and legs are really Clark...
...kiss the heroine. In his third, he gave her a shy peck on the cheek. In his fourth, he actually kissed her on the mouth-though, as one moviegoer saw it, the kiss was not so much a kiss as an "oral handshake." But after seeing this film, Mama Boone's hand may well reach instinctively for the Singer. Pat Boone kisses the leading lady with his mouth wide open. What's more, in full view of those millions of suggestible young people to whom he has preached "the teen commandments," Pat pats her pretty little derriere. "With...
...short for Patricia. Mama, as Pat still calls her, was expecting a girl...
...character who endeared herself most to the audience (at least to this particular segment of the audience) was Frances Blakeslee, who bumped magnificently through the part of Gladys--the big, red-haired bomb-shell. From her devastating rendition of I'm a Red Hot Mama to the hearty parody of Plant You Nog' Dig You Later, she showed herself a remarkably skilled comedienne. It was an increasing pleasure to see her bounce onto the stage, wiggle her nose, etc., and let go with that big voice...