Word: saloon
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...these days seems a strait-laced street, solemn with young Method actors mooning over Chekhov and Freud, censored by Actors Equity, censured by critics. Little is heard to compare with the 19th century chores of young Edwin Booth, who led his father, Junius Brutus Booth, staggering from the corner saloon; or Stella Campbell, who turned her back on Sir Beerbohm Tree so often that he ran screaming from the stage. But last week Broadway's most spectacular feline feud in years had the whole street on edge. The clawing started when gifted Actress Kim (Bus Stop) Stanley abruptly announced...
...mutation mink. Steak dinners were snapped up at $10 a plate; drink-hustling waiters peddled hooch by the bottle ("Ya might as well. Yer payin' for it"). Then the M.C. silenced the house with a simple announcement: "Direct from the bar of the Boom Boom Room [another Fontainbleau saloon] we bring you the vocalist, Frank Sinatra...
...honoring Old Vaudevillian George Jessel, where Liz chipped in $100,000 for some Israel bonds; Eddie hosted a surprise 27th birthday party for his lovely friend, gave her a purse studded with 27 diamonds; Liz leased a Nevada desert ranch, just to be near Eddie during a Las Vegas saloon engagement next month...
...identity, loped off on a laconic parody called Gunshy. As played by Ben Gage, tall, broad-beamed Marshal Mort Dooley looked remarkably like Gunsmoke's tall, broad-beamed Marshal Matt Dillon. But unlike Dillon, Dooley is a businessman ("I own 37½% of the Weeping Willow Saloon") and contemplator ("This is Boot Hill-I like to come up here sometimes, to think, and maybe get a grave or two ahead"). With the help of the "finest undertaker west of Dodge City," Doc Stucke (clearly related to Gunsmoke's Doc Adams), and loyal, limping Deputy Clyde Diefendorfer (Gunsmoke...
Inspired by tall tales and egged on by television, a new generation of gunslingers is springing up in the once wild West. These six-gun artists would not think of drilling the sheriff, robbing the morning stage or shooting up a saloon. The current crop of gun toters consists of butchers, businessmen and other working folk, intent only on competitive fun as they draw against one another in one of the reformed West's newest and fastest-growing sports...