Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...survived. One day during roll call, all tailors were told to remain standing at attention, while the others were ordered dispersed. "My intuition told me to stand still." Pisar remembers. "When the SS officer got to me he asked me if I were a tailor I answered. Sir, I am no a tailor, but a buttonhole maker." Something must have clicked in the officer's mind because he told me to got to the right--the side of life...
...there has to be a TV remake of Witness for the Prosecution, who could be more tony (or should that be Emmy?) in the Charles Laughton-Elsa Lanchester parts than Sir Ralph Richardson, 79, and Deborah Kerr, 61? Kerr's role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation next month on CBS is a departure from the oh-so-proper image that she usually projects. Says she: "Playing a bossy nurse to a tempestuous old gentleman is much more fun than playing glamorous women." And, as Richardson would surely add, a good deal more fun for the old gentleman...
...Larry King Show" for its guests. Like any talk show host. King draws his share of weirdos. Usually he cuts them off. But he has a handful of regulars, such as "The Portland Laugher," a caller who never speaks, but only laughs into the phone. "I'll say, 'Sir, what do you think of President Reagan's economic plan?' and The Laugher practically passes out from laughing," King writes. One wonders whether the listeners do, too. Another regular labels himself "The Syracuse Chair," and claims to be the voice of the empty chair that was to stand on the stage...
...celebrity endorser had seemed snug in his position, it was oracular, orotund Orson Welles, 66, who boasted that Paul Masson Vineyards let nothing go "before its tune." But the winemaker let Welles go, and has now replaced him as spokesman with that quintessential enunciator Sir John Gielgud, 78, whose first two ads put him in an art gallery and amid a forest of pro football players. Gielgud, who has been cashing in just a teensy bit on his posi-Arthur cachet, would seem more at home with a Mouton-Rothschild than a Masson party jug. But the vint ner insists...
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE.Calif: The space shuttle returned to Earth yesterday as a tried and true carrier of space cargo, its commander sculpting. "Yes sir, we deliver," With dawn's early light shining off the American flag un its side the shuttle cut through desert clouds to a centerline landing...