Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From then on, and despite headline-grabbing flirtations with John Gilbert and Leopold Stokowski, Garbo became in effect the indentured mistress of her movie studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This most galvanizing of actresses was the most passive of stars. At MGM's urging, the young Garbo slimmed down, had her teeth capped, adjusted her hairline. Her most enduring studio ally was her doting cinematographer, William Daniels. Garbo must have felt comfortable, surrounded by MGM's middlebrow high gloss. She may not have cared that its gentility suffocated her films, so long as she could breathe her artistry into them...
...cozy exchanges are contained in Philip's notebook. Eventually he has to convince his wife that this pillowless pillow talk is between him and an imaginary mistress who appears in a novel in progress. The wife does not buy it. She insists that the woman in the notebook is the living, panting model for her husband's creative effort. His exasperated explanation: "I have been imagining myself, outside of my novel, having a love affair with a character inside my novel...
Start with a promising Indiana politician. Add one mistress. Season with love notes and broken promises. The result? A pungent political scandal...
Noriega began his legal counterattack the day he arrived in Florida by refusing to enter a plea at his arraignment in U.S. district court. Dressed in a fresh uniform that was sent to him at the Vatican embassy by his mistress Vicky Amado, the general used headphones to follow the proceedings in Spanish. Defense attorney Frank A. Rubino argued that his client was immune from prosecution because he was a political prisoner who had been brought to the U.S illegally...
...directly descended from Charles II. "Most people in England are," she chuckles, "and I'm no exception." All, of course, from "the wrong side of the blanket." She likes the fact that her line stems from the classy Duchess of Cleveland rather than the King's more ordinary mistress, actress Nell Gwyn...