Word: mel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mel Zuckerman, super Type A, has a massage every afternoon. "That's why I built this place," he says. Zuckerman loves to tell the story. There he was in 1978, nearly 50 years old, a fat, rich real estate developer with high blood pressure who was reaching the dispiriting conclusion that this "was the prime of my life, and it wasn't so great." Then he went to a California spa and "experienced a natural high for the first time in my life." So, with his wife Enid, he bought an old dude ranch, spent $6.8 million converting...
...acquired freshman would have faced a jail sentence of 10 to 20 years if he had been convicted. Mel Nasielski, an administrative assistant to the Philadelphia district attorney, said Judge Leonard Ivanoski discharged the defendant due to insufficient evidence that the plaintiff actually was forced to have intercourse...
...make chairs interesting is an extraordinary accomplishment," said Mel the Booksel- ler, who frequents the corner booth near Tommy's jukebox for most of each...
...eerily appropriate that Lillian in the film is Kim Stanley, the imposing stage actress who 25 years ago played yet another troubled movie star in Paddy Chayefsky's The Goddess. Stanley still has star quality: when Mel Brooks, Hollywood's reigning zany and the executive producer of Frances, was told that she might be available to play Lillian, Brooks jumped on his desk for joy. Stanley, the holder of a master's degree in psychology from the University of Texas, looks at her role and says, "Lillian mixed her identity with Frances'. She was in love...
...piano. Paradoxically, Robbins is most, and least, successful with his extended bagatelle in the second movement. Into a vivid world of women - the girls in dark red, Calegari and Kistler in brightest white - Robbins suddenly injects the dark, powerful presence of Mel Tomlinson, effecting a stark, dramatic contrast. He then spoils the mood by having Tomlinson and Calegari dance a lazy, dull pas de deux...