Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lindy's (all the cheesecake he could eat). Good off-Broadway jobs came in The Sea Gull (1954), Thieves' Carnival (1955), The Beaux' Stratagem, and The Power and the Glory (last year). Bosley won the La Guardia role over more than 200 other contenders (both Mickey Rooney and Eli Wallach had been considered), prepared himself by listening to recordings, reading biographies and studying still photographs, but he carefully avoided overdoing all that. "I do an impression," he says, "not an imitation...
...Mickey Rooney celebrated the first wedding anniversary of his fifth marriage, with a fifth. Instead of rolling on home to sleep it off, he kept another date, showed up for a guest appearance on the Jack Paar Show, now visiting Hollywood. Jack, amiably bringing to mind Mickey's previous four marriages, asked: "What was Ava Gardner really like?" Replied Mickey: "Well, Mr. Paar, may I say this, she is more woman than you will ever know...
...Mickey walked out. "It's a shame," said Paar to his microphone. "He was a great talent." A man in the audience asked if the Mickaruni had really been schnoggered. Paar: "I don't think so. I think he's high-strung. But I wouldn't light a match in here for weeks...
...hung over in headline. Rooney woke up and got sore, conceded that he'd been "half smashed," but "a man would have to be drunk to appear on that show. Paar is the dregs of television." That afternoon, the two men met, and in the end both apologized. Mickey was supposed to reappear on Paar's show for the sake of good will, but he changed his mind. Paar gleefully announced his replacement: Moppet Star Evelyn (Eloise) Rudie, nine years old and ten inches shorter than Mickey's 5 ft. 3. Full of good taste. Paar...
Married. Juanita Dale Phillips (Candy Barr), 24, Las Vegas stripteaser sentenced to 15 years on a narcotics conviction, whose unsuccessful U.S. Supreme Court appeal was financed by Mickey Cohen; and Jack Sahakian, 28, Los Angeles beauty-salon operator; she for the third time, he for the second; in Las Vegas...