Word: nymphomania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This London-born actress's signature roles, as Blanche du Bois in the original 1947 production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire and as Daisy Werthan in the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy, were both mid-century Southern belles. They were also polar opposites: a woman plummeting from nymphomania into dementia; a lady struggling to balance propriety and humanity. For Streetcar she won the first of three Tonys (the others were for two collaborations with Cronyn, The Gin Game in 1978 and Foxfire in 1982); for Miss Daisy she earned an Oscar as Best Actress in 1990. Two years...
Kathy Willets loved her work. But there were some very nervous men in southern Florida last week after Broward County Judge John Frusciante decided to release her client list. The 33-year-old Tamarac woman claims she treated her nymphomania by sleeping with dozens of strangers -- for fees ranging from $50 to $150 -- while her husband Jeffrey, a suspended sheriff's deputy, secretly watched from a bedroom closet and took notes...
...SHINING EXAMPLE. Doug Danziger, Fort Lauderdale's conservative vice mayor who has crusaded against college students on spring break, topless bars and adult bookstores, resigned last week after his name allegedly turned up on the client list of a woman who says she tried to cure her nymphomania by having sex with different...