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Everybody's Pal. Lionel's vita has not always been so dolce. After years of bumming in Greenwich Village, he became, as he recalls it, "a half-assed journalist for Hearst. But they fired me because I spent too much time at Lindy's and Stillman's Gym." He made his stage debut in an off-Broadway production of E.E. Cummings' Him. Lionel appeared on radio with Fred Allen and Fanny Brice. Then he drifted into movies, where he scored as a poet-of all things-in The Scoundrel (1934). His face (complete with unmatching...
...Julian English, a doomed young member of the upper middle class, was a great success. O'Hara's career was truly launched. Novels like Butterfield 8, A Rage to Live and From the Terrace flowed from his restless typewriter. In 1940 he wrote the libretto for Pal Joey, an instant Broadway sensation. Though he got the National Book Award, he never won either the Pulitzer or the Nobel Prize, to his unconcealed annoyance. "It used to hurt, never winning an award, but I've never been the pet of intellectuals," he said. His small Pennsylvania towns, like...
...life, he served nearly ten years before the Supreme Court upset his conviction in 1966 on the ground that "inherently prejudicial publicity" had prevented him from receiving a fair trial. Retried and acquitted (the murder weapon was never found), Sheppard married a German divorcee who had become his pen pal while he was in prison, and reopened his practice. Divorced in 1969 and harassed with malpractice suits, Sheppard became a professional wrestler, and five months before he died married the 20-year-old daughter of his manager...
...birth of the modern Broadway musical is generally dated back to the early forties, when Rodgers and Hart's Pal Joey and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! introduced the idea of integrating songs and dances into a play. Up until that time, musicals were generally silly comedies or melodramas in which musical numbers, often irrelevant to the dramatized action, were used to bridge scenes. Richard Rodgers and his collaborators proved that these numbers could actually function as part of the play itself-enhancing characterizations, moving along the action, adding to dramatic impact and so forth. This was a revolutionary innovation...
...Defined by Webster's as "a small gnome held to be responsible for malfunction of equipment." American Motors' definition: "a pal to its friends and an ogre to its enemies...