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...Englanders make money on sheep. But, as Fred Courser, 63, a professional shearer who has barbered 10,000 sheep in his lifetime points out: "Sheep are something anybody can have on a farm without paying all outdoors for. You can feed 'em on grass and hay, and you don't have to grain 'em. If you have the wool, you can spin it and clothe yourself. You can even eat 'em if you have...
...began her fight for meaty roles that would lift her out of the overcrowded pretty-face category. She nabbed a few - notably in Rain and Grand Hotel - but those parts at MGM, which held her contract, usually went to the likes of Norma Shearer. After 17 years, Crawford moved on to Warner Bros., where she held out for two pictureless years until she got Mildred Pierce, which won her an Oscar in 1945. That film launched her on her middle passage, during which she played women who suffered much for love or ambition...
Phillips admits failure for the time being. Now is just not the time for this clan. The AIP isn't ready for an assault from the outside. Party Chairman William Shearer likens the AIP to a girl "targeted for a rape that didn't come off." By morning all of them--Phillips, Rusher, Viguerie, Morris--have packed their Brooks Brothers suits and disappeared...
...groups did not see eye to eye on every issue. Reagan backers favored a more aggressive anti-Communist foreign policy, advocating a strong American reaction against incidents like the killing of two U.S. soldiers by North Koreans. Wallace "populists" tended to isolationism. According to A.I.P. National Chairman William K. Shearer, "There wouldn't be anybody there to get killed in the first place...
...paid for Christ's sake, and 75% of the country is watching. By next week a half-billion people will have seen the show. A half-billion people buddy! You can't buy publicity like that!" It's dollars, baby, dollars. Movies fought off television in the fifties (Norma Shearer refused to buy one, none of the old hard-liners would have them in their houses) but now they've submitted to realities and they...