Word: sheila
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LAST OF SHEILA...
...Mediterranean have other things in common: they are faintly pathetic has-beens and never-weres in the film business; each has his or her sordid little secret (homosexuality, alcoholism, an old shoplifting charge, etc.); all but one were present the night Clinton's gossip-columnist wife Sheila was killed by a hit-and-run driver outside his Bel Air home and can reasonably be suspected of the crime...
Clinton, like the Laurence Olivier character in Sleuth, is famous for his love of intricate parlor games, and each night his guests are required to endure a cleverly plotted, punningly clued hare-and-hounds chase designed to reveal their past transgressions-and, it is hinted, Sheila's murderer...
...visit was more amicable than might have been expected. The British press gave the Whitlams a markedly friendly reception: MR. DOWN-UNDER COULD BE TOPS, said a Sunday Telegraph headline. The Dally Mail delved into Aussie slang to describe Mrs. Whitlam as "a 'beaut sheila' indeed,"-meaning, roughly, a swell dame. On the government's part, Prime Minister Edward Heath thoughtfully invited the four Whitlam children, aged 19 to 29, who had gathered in London for a family reunion, to join their parents at a state dinner at 10 Downing Street. Whitlam scored points at the dinner...
...girl, the vocabulary of a mule skinner and the subtle approach of a Sherman tank. She often compares herself to Eve Harrington, the calculating and ruthless climber in All About Eve. In fact, a character based on Mengers will soon appear in a new film called The Last of Sheila. Director Herb Ross describes the character as "human, gamy, but not common...