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...Category. She was still learning (with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse) when 20th Century-Fox called her to test for a role in a film called Taxi. Dressed in an old skirt and a man's shirt on her way to class, "I walked into Gregory Ratoff's office, and he threw up his arms and screamed, 'She's perfect.' In all my life, no one has ever said, 'You are perfect.' People have been confused about my type, but they agreed on one thing: I was in the "too" category...
...could go out, but he wouldn't let me until I said I was Eddie Fisher trying to get some fresh air. I went back in, and spied Debbie cavorting on the stage with some hula girls. From time to time she would draw her skirt up to a chalk mark four inches above her knee, cry "Mercy!" as the flashbulbs popped, and hurriedly drop it. She let me hold her silver fox wrap, and a lady from Universal-International, sensing my importance, sidled over and told me Debbie had just flown East for a few days to see Eddie...
From Irving Ives, after his wife's skirt was spattered by a ripe tomato in Watertown, came some of the harshest language yet heard in a harsh U.S. political season. Cried Ives: "I've been under worse fire than that. I can't be more eloquent in what I have to say about this opposition than what has just been done here on this platform. It was aimed at me, and it's all right, because it came by indirection from Tammany Hall, the outfit that's running this campaign on the Democratic side...
...good time is to stay home night after night looking at television.' [He] objected heatedly to the fanfare of sexy photos." Many another reporter wrote that Joe was particularly miffed by the publicity photos taken on a New York street a month ago, showing Marilyn's skirt billowing up over her backside. At the time, Joe was reported to have said angrily: "What the hell's going on here...
...yearly vacation for members), showed off a radically modernized habit (see cut) that looked more like a chic town suit than nuns' garb. Designed in accordance with Pope Pius XII's plea for more rational, comfortable dress among nuns, the new habit features an oxford grey skirt (slightly flared and coming just below the knee), a loose box jacket, a white Peter Pan-collared blouse, a black pillbox hat, black leather pumps with medium heels, and nylons. Said Postulant Marian Mraz, 25, modeling the new outfit: "We'll be right up to date...