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...desire to play Peter Sellers. I don't know who Peter Sellers is, except that he's the one who gets paid. Gary Grant is Gary Grant-that's his stock in trade. If I tried to sell myself as Peter Sellers, I'd be penniless. Write any character you have in mind and I'll shape myself to what you have written. But don't write a part for me." Sellers won his early popularity doing impersonations on the radio. He soon formed the celebrated Goon Show with two others and proved that...
Cried one pied-noir: "We're foreigners in France. We're beggars in neckties." A penniless truck driver from Algiers, who sleeps in a Roman Catholic mission and exists on one meal a day, warns: "Things will explode if the government doesn't do something for us fast...
...tormented life of the playwright Johan August Strindberg, the darkest time fell between the years 1893 and 1895. The government of his native Sweden-"the land of the nonadult, the disenfranchised, the mutes"-had tried to suppress his work as "blasphemy." Penniless, he settled in Paris with one summer suit to his name, for summer or winter wear. His second marriage was going badly, confirming his obsessive distrust of women who, he said, "admire swindlers, quack dentists, braggadocios of literature, peddlers of wooden spoons-everything mediocre." He himself was close to madness -a shabby, shuffling figure who dabbled in alchemy...
...angelic-looking, penniless, tattered, and an instant success in Paris' literary cafes. The aging Victor Hugo hailed him as "Shakespeare enfant" another poet called him "Satan amidst the doctors." Paul Verlaine, then 27 and already an established poet, fell helplessly in love with...
...million to $1 billion) who was often called "the last pirate of the Mediterranean" and who bankrolled Francisco Franco's climb to dictatorship; of injuries sustained two weeks ago when his Cadillac crashed head on into a banking competitor's car; in Madrid. Though he was born penniless on Majorca and remained illiterate until the age of 40, hawk-featured March (pronounced Mark) scaled from stevedore to smuggler to shipowner, won over the Spanish tobacco monopoly, sold to both sides during both World Wars, gained control of much of Spain's banking, brewing, mining, farming, utilities, newspapers...