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...sense. So I just left that part out." No harm, no foul. "If I were President Bush's interpreter and I was doing this, it would be catastrophic," Dabadie says, "but this is sports. Pfft." Now that Japan is out of the Cup, Dabadie is considering a career in showbiz. He'll make a fine body double...
...Hepburn who said of Astaire-Rogers: "He gives her class. She gives him sex." Truth to tell, Fred gave Ginger more class than she gave him sex. Rogers was a showbiz cutie, just 21 when they were first paired (he was 33), and radiating healthy self-awareness more than eroticism; as Arlene Croce wrote in her vibrantly evocative critique "The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Book," Ginger was "like a clever puppy who knows it's being watched." And, except metaphorically, there was no sex in their films; they typically played lovers who never got to kiss (except...
...defined, her hair long, dark and straight, and her eyes a vibrant green," writes Bogle of Fredericka Carolyn Washington. "In Harlem society in the 1920s and 1930s, she and her sister, Isabelle, were legendary beauties, hotly pursued and discussed." Washington's light-skinned beauty both enhanced and abridged her showbiz career; but her exotic outsider status pursued her, defined her, wherever she went. Her husband, Lawrence Brown, was a trombonist with Duke Ellington, and in the 30s she would occasionally accompany the orchestra on dates in the American South. Josephine Baker's adopted son Jean-Claude has said that...
...through Communist Party ranks to become commander-in-chief of the army. Dung penned his controversial memoirs Our Great Spring Victory in 1976. DIED. ROSETTA LENOIRE, 90, affable grandma on the American TV sitcom Family Matters and goddaughter of dancing legend Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, with whom she started in showbiz; in Teaneck, New Jersey. LeNoire, who founded the Amas Repertory Theatre that is dedicated to developing new musicals and talent, won a National Medal of Arts in 1999. DIED. MAUDE FARRIS-LUSE, 115, the world's oldest person according to the Guinness Book of World Records; in Coldwater, Michigan. Luse...
...columns about "cafe society" - rich folks "whose only occupation was to change clothes and go out," as Ralph Blumenthal writes in "Stork Club: America's Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Cafe Society." Unlike a quarter of all adult Americans in the Depression, these madcap heiresses and showbiz Romeos had a job: to be seen being glamorous, by sitting in Manhattan night clubs that served as the fraternities of the leisure class, an Ellis Island for the elite. There the swells would sip martinis, intone the odd witticism or inanity and occasionally commit some headline indiscretion...