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...service." They were sick of seeing servants portrayed as scene transitions: "You know, 'here's your hat, sir,' or having their bottoms pinched." Neither woman did anything to rectify the situation until a year later, when an actress boasted to Jean that she had landed a plum part. "I was furiously jealous," says Jean, who immediately called a producer friend. "What do I do with an idea for a TV series?" she asked. "You bring it to me," was his reply...
...something very close to style. An image drawn from these times captures a rural American dream: "O, it was a beautiful tree, right to the northwest side of my car shed, two-car shed; had that '26 Ford and that '28 Chevrolet stationed close to that plum tree." Such prosperity was Shaw's undoing. Local whites "didn't like to see a nigger with too much." The sharecroppers' union told blacks that they could some day run their own affairs, and Shaw joined. But a white landowner coveted what Shaw had, and the future...
...press. Now, are they dumb? Are they stupid? It's an Ellsberg rule--Ellsberg's Law of Bureaucracy, I'm not a bureaucratic theorist but what I learned in the Pentagon was: Anyone can be as dumb as he has to be to keep his job. The highest plum that any reporter can offer his boss is access to Henry Kissinger, the ability to have a private conversation with Henry Kissinger. You don't get that ability twice if you use it the first time to talk about what a conniver, fool, murderer, war criminal Henry Kissinger...
...most popular numbers are close-up effects, magic that can be done around coffee or conference tables. "Half and 20 centavo" ($12.50) turns a copper coin into a quarter-while the customer clutches it. "Chop-chop cups," little changed from the days of ancient Egypt, produce spheres from plum to orange size. "Spooky, the spirit handkerchief makes a ghost wander around under an empty little blanket of silk...
...million for half ownership of a Manhattan café converted from a theater that LeRoy had acquired so he could be a writer, director and producer. He wanted to transform the cafe into a restaurant where he would "create the sense of spectacle." He did, and Maxwell's Plum is now the paragon of Manhattan's singles spots, earning a tidy 13% profit on a yearly gross of about $4.5 million, and delivering LeRoy a salary of more than $200,000. That leaves the 39-year-old LeRoy with one dream to fulfill: losing...