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...girl, she was embarrassed by her height. And while her friends surfed, fair-skinned Nicole fretted about freckling. Drama was the solution. "It was natural for me," she says, "to want to disappear into a dark theater." Soon she had the poise that would bloom into a regal grace under pressure in Dead Calm, Days of Thunder (where she met Cruise) and Billy Bathgate, as Dutch Schultz's posh girlfriend--her sharpest movie role before...
Inside every gay man, the drag queen's fantasy credo goes, there's a beautiful woman just dying to accessorize. Take Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze), the regal doyenne in To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar. Vida is a Victoria among drag queens; she could be the perfect ad for sisterhood out of a 1947 Good Housekeeping. And Swayze, maintaining equipoise between camp and bathos, is every inch a lady...
...orthopedics, artificial turf. "We have nine different grasses at work here," George Toma, the Royals' ground-keeping consultant said last Wednesday, an hour before the first pitch of the season, in Kansas City. "Five bluegrass types-Princeton 104, Eclipse, Nassau, Glade and Suffolk-and four ryes-Derby, Gator, Regal and Top Hat. They act like a team. If one or two get sick, the others take over. Some are hardier than others; some are greener. That's why we have nine. Come to think of it, that's one grass for every position on the field...
...Diana is alleged to have dubbed Camilla Parker Bowles ``the Rottweiler'' [Jan. 23]. I take great umbrage at that. The Rottweiler breed is handsome, noble, intelligent, courageous and steadfastly loyal, and these dogs have an inherent desire to protect home and family. Puh-leeze, Diana. Do not bestow the regal title of Rottweiler on Camilla...
...diana is alleged to have dubbed Camilla Parker Bowles ``the Rottweiler'' [Jan. 23]. I take great umbrage at that. The Rottweiler breed is handsome, noble, intelligent, courageous and steadfastly loyal, and these dogs have an inherent desire to protect home and family. Puh-leeze, Diana. Do not bestow the regal title of Rottweiler on Camilla...