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...Morocco, where, she said, Errol Flynn once proposed to her. (She didn?t say what he proposed.) ?By her midteens, Phyllis was regularly getting her photo in the New York Times as a bright young star on the social scene,? we learn from Stephen Miller?s admirable obit in the Sun. ?Adams?s debut [in 1941] was a stunning affair at the St. Regis Roof, reported in full in the Times, with the debutante receiving guests ?before a bower of southern smilax and woodwardia ferns,? and wearing an off-the-shoulder sky-blue gown ?trimmed with small ostrich feathers tipped...
...Alexander was 44 when he married Phyllis, who was just 21. He had been married before, to the sophisticated stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. The Sun obit adds: ?As reported the next day in the Los Angeles Times, Lee bore him a son on the very day he and Adams were wed? - December 1, 1944. What neither paper mentions is that the child wasn?t Kirkland?s; it was Preminger?s. The boy was first called Erik Kirkland, then Erik de Diego. When he learned his father?s true identity, the young man took the name Erik Lee Preminger...
...great-lady airs; rather, a practical charm, an energetic poise that could make any impromptu sentence as persuasive as a speech from a Philip Barry comedy. At the time of her marriage to Kirkland, she was parading it on stage, ?appearing in summer stock in New England,? the Sun obit observes, ?as well as pre-Broadway engagements of more ambitious plays.? The Missing in Action Website, which highlights female pioneers in TV production, reports that Phyllis ?showed her maverick nature by traveling war-torn Europe in a USO tour of Noel Coward?s ?Blithe Spirit.?? So the co-starring...
...Friday show quickly evolved into a half-hour daily discussion show, ?It?s a Problem,? which NBC sent out to 18 other stations. Given Phyllis? life of privilege, it?s not surprising that she was choosing topics less from personal experience than from her voracious curiosity. The Sun obit quotes her as telling the Times: ?I could count only nine or 10 problems that I had experienced and was sure we?d run out of problems within two weeks. I was scared to death when I got the assignment and left immediately on a trip to Bermuda.? Apparently, she recovered...
...highlight of each ?CBS SM? year-end show (along with a show-and-tell of endangered species saved) is its annual Obit review, which last December ran for nearly 20 mins. The segments were sensitively presented and expertly edited, the narration flowing with grace and pertinence from one subject to the next, the clips and photos evoking in a few seconds lives whose brilliance or notoriety helped change ours. My wife says she expects to cry at least once during each ?CBS SM.? This farewell montage had us both moist with sorrow and appreciation...