Word: sardis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assumed to be Pontius Pilate. Hollywood is the fleshpots of imperial Rome. Villainous lawyers and venal politicians ("For a thousand dollars you can buy a Senator") gnash their teeth in the wings, and of course Judas Crane lets his old party pal have it (after a Last Supper at Sardi...
...hard for personal success to let it turn her head. Being in the public eye makes her vaguely uncomfortable and selfconscious, as though she were still a little girl in high corrective boots. She would rather wander through the Fulton fish market than sit signing autographs at Sardi's, and she is probably happiest of all when she is backstage at Yankees, feeling herself a part of the show's color and action. Says Director Abbott: "She's a complete jewel-quick, indefatigable, cooperative and objective. She knows what's good for the show and what...
After the final curtain on the Broadway opening night, she made the traditional visit to Sardi's Restaurant. It was crowded with first-nighters who had just seen her show. In an unparalleled tribute, they rose as one and gave her an ovation. Shirley-this time not acting-turned around curiously to see who was being applauded. After Sheba, following a favorite dictum ("An actress should make you forget everything she has done before"), she took a secondary role in the musical A Tree Grows in Brooklyn...
...LIME magazine, it will be at least partly because of his own experiences as a TIME cover subject (Nov. 6, 1950). "For years I felt very badly that TIME had been doing covers of Joe DiMaggio, Churchill, Eisenhower, but not me. A couple of years ago, I was in Sardi's and [Columnist] Leonard Lyons stopped by my table. He said: 'You ought to be on the cover of TIME.' I agreed that he was inspired. So he dragged me right over to [TIME Senior Editor] Joe Purtell, who was in the room at the time...
...insomniac, he reads voraciously when he can't sleep, calls sleeplessness "culture's greatest ally." He drinks from 20 to 30 cups of coffee a day (no liquor), makes regular rounds of such Manhattan hangouts as Toots Shor's, Lindy's, the Stage delicatessen or Sardi's. When Tony Galento, the barrel-shaped bartender-turned-fighter, was flattened by Joe Louis, Cannon wired big (250 Ib.) Toots Shor: "Lay low. This is a bad night for fat saloonkeepers." Scarcely a day passes in season that Cannon doesn't go to the ballpark, fights...