Word: stage-door
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...bizarre circumstances of this stage-door presidential campaign conspired to make Tuesday's television drama a climactic, winner-take-all event...
...Stage-door groupies do not throng after Frost. He is sallow-skinned, pouchy-eyed. His suits are rumpled; the thin brown hair barely conceals a balding pate. He gulps pills to avert the double vision he gets from migraines. He gnaws his fingernails. His voice is flat and distinctly non-U. He wears blue suede shoes...
...England three years later--just twenty-five--overcome by a bitter winter. And I pictured Lotta Crabtree, the actress of the Wild West, dancing on tables in miners' saloons showered with coins and nuggets. But Janet Wilson James's biography dims the glamour by describing her tribulations--a stage-door mother, type-casting that kept her playing children's parts till the end of her career, and an increasingly lonely...
This central "story" (and it cannot really be called that) involves two women. Phyllis and Sally, who had been best friends as showgirls, and had married Ben and Buddy, two stage-door johnnies before Pearl Harbor. The two couples have not seen each other in thirty years and, now that they meet, it is only to discover that they have all pursued the wrong goals and, worse, chosen the wrong mates...
...last winter, Dick Cavett, the subject of that stage-door chatter, was caught in the coffeecake crunch of morning television. Up against such formidable foes as Dick Van Dyke, The Beverly Hillbillies and Andy Griffith -all rerunning for their lives-Cavett found himself and his talk program scrambling for ratings. While insisting that they liked the guy a lot, ABC nonetheless canceled the show. But not for long. Cavett is back on the network -in prime time...