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...founding "Charlie" of Manhattan's famed "21" restaurant (see BUSINESS) and guest of honor as a benefactor of Massachusetts' decade-old Brandeis University. Getting a glowing introduction, Jack Kennedy seemed startled, then smiled and disclosed some spirits in his ancestral tree: "My grandfather had a saloon and my father was in the liquor business, and I don't usually get such a warm reception from people to whom my father sold something...
...western with a more or less conventional moral, viz., if you try to run a gunman out of town when the wrist of your gun hand is broken, be sure the scriptwriter is on your side. In this one, Actor Quinn plays a gunman who arrives in a one-saloon town and, in a remarkably short time, ventilates three bad men. The good citizens promptly name him sheriff, presumably on the theory that it is better to have a bad sheriff who can shoot fast than a good one who can't. It is a tribute to Quinn...
...what the country was like, the authentic sense of place that is Guthrie's trademark. Even the standard brushes with Indians and rustlers have a quality of this-is-how-it-was, and the speech rings as true as the slap of a silver dollar on a saloon...
...kind of idea that makes him unpopular with the local Army general, the state governor and the boys in the corner saloon, who begin calling him an "Indian lover." Meanwhile, back on the reservation, black-eyed Tianay (Anne Bancroft), a squaw who is "much woman," moves in on Audie with the conviction that he is "much man." Rather stuffily, Audie refuses to prove it in their adobe cottage, explaining that he is already "pledged," and that at best a white man can handle only one wife at a time. But he does prove, in 88 minutes flat, that a white...
...notes from her throat atop the RCA Building. Last winter, just before an 8 o'clock TV rehearsal, a call came: Would she appear on the 9:30 show at the Copacabana that night? The regular star, Billy Daniels, had been accused of shooting somebody in a saloon row, and couldn't get sprung in time. "When I got to the club, they didn't want to let me in. I had on a leather jacket and black wool slacks. I looked like a motorcycle kid. I had eight minutes to dress and get on the floor...